Taxobox
image_caption = undescribed "Lomanius" from the Philippines
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Laniatores
infraordo = Grassatores
superfamilia = Samooidea
familia = Podoctidae
familia_authority = Roewer, 1912
diversity_link = List of Podoctidae species
diversity = c. 60 genera, c. 130 species
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subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text for list.
Podoctidae is a family of the harvestman infraorder Grassatores with about 130 described species.[aut|Kury, Adriano B. (2007): Podoctidae Roewer, 1912. In: Pinto-da-Rocha "et al." 2007: 221ff] ]Description
Body length ranges from 2.5 to 5 millimeters, with leg length ranging from three to almost thirty mm. While most species are brown to yellow, some are deep green. The legs may be ringed in black and yellow. The penis is uniquely built.Distribution
Most species occur in Southeast Asia, especially in New Guinea. Others are found in Melanesia, Micronesia, Japan, India and Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius, and central Africa. "Ibantila cubana" was introduced in a botanical garden in Cuba. Although one Podoctidae was described from Brazil in 1938, it was later transferred to Triaenonychidae.Relationships
Although Podoctidae are currently included in Samooidea, and are surely Grassatores, there is no obvious relationship with any family.Name
The name of the type genus is derived from Ancient Greek "podos" "foot" and "oktis" "spine", referring to the ventral row of long spines in femur I.Genera
Erecananinae
* "Erecanana" Strand, 1911 — Africa, Madagascar, Réunion (9 species)
* "Iyonus" Suzuki, 1964 — Japan (1 species)
* "Lomanius" Roewer, 1923 — Java, Palau, Taiwan (8 species)
Ibaloniinae
* "Asproleria" Roewer, 1949 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Austribalonius" Forster, 1955 — Australia (1 species)
* "Bonea" Roewer, 1913 — Indonesia, Philippines (8 species)
* "Eusitalces" Roewer, 1915 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
* "Gargenna" Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia (1 species)
* "Heteroibalonius" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 (1 species)
* "Heteropodoctis" Roewer, 1912 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Holozoster" Loman, 1902 — Seychelles (1 species)
* "Ibalonianus" Roewer, 1923 — New Guinea, Indonesia, Solomons (7 species)
* "Ibalonius" Karsch, 1880 — Philippines, New Caledonia, Seychelles, New Guinea (17 species)
* "Ibantila" Silhavy, 1969 — Cuba (introduced) (1 species)
* "Leytpodoctis" J. Martens, 1993 - Philippines (1 species)
* "Mesoceratula" Roewer, 1949 (1 species)
* "Metibalonius" Roewer, 1915 — New Guinea, Indonesia (17 species)
* "Orobunus" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 (1 species)
* "Paramesoceras" Roewer, 1915 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Pentacros" Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia (1 species)
* "Podoctinus" Roewer, 1923 — New Britain (1 species)
* "Proholozoster" Roewer, 1915 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Santobius" Roewer, 1949 — New Hebrides (1 species)
* "Sitalcicus" Roewer, 1923 — Seychelles (3 species)
Podoctinae
* "Baramella" Roewer, 1949 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Baramia" Hirst, 1912 — Indonesia (4 species)
* "Baso" Roewer, 1923 — Sumatra (1 species)
* "Basoides" Roewer, 1949 — Sumatra (1 species)
* "Bistota" Roewer, 1927 — India (1 species)
* "Centrobunus" Loman, 1902 — Seychelles (1 species)
* "Dino" Loman, in Weber 1892 — Sumatra (1 species)
* "Dongmoa" Roewer, 1927 — Tonking (2 species)
* "Eupodoctis" Roewer, 1923 — India, Sri Lanka (2 species)
* "Eurytromma" Roewer, 1949 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
* "Gaditusa" Roewer, 1949 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Hoplodino" Roewer, 1915 — Indonesia, Singapore (4 species)
* "Idjena" Roewer, 1927 — Java (1 species)
* "Idzubius" Roewer, 1949 — Japan (1 species)
* "Japetus" Roewer, 1949 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Laponcea" Roewer, 1936 — Mauritius (1 species)
* "Lejokus" Roewer, 1949 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Lundulla" Roewer, 1927 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Metapodoctis" Roewer, 1915 — Taiwan, Thailand (2 species)
* "Neopodoctis" Roewer, 1912 — Sri Lanka (2 species)
* "Oppodoctis" Roewer, 1927 — Philippines (1 species)
* "Peromona" Roewer, 1949 — Seychelles (1 species)
* "Podoctellus" Roewer, 1949 — Johore (1 species)
* "Podoctis" Thorell, 1890 — Pinang (1 species)
* "Podoctomma" Roewer, 1949 — Java (1 species)
* "Podoctops" Roewer, 1949 — Sumatra (1 species)
* "Pumbaraius" Roewer, 1927 — India (2 species)
* "Sibolgia" Roewer, 1923 — Sumatra (1 species)
* "Stobitus" Roewer, 1949 — Malaysia (1 species)
* "Tandikudius" Roewer, 1929 — India (1 species)
* "Trencona" Roewer, 1949 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Trigonobunus" Loman, 1894 — Borneo (1 species)
* "Tryssetus" Roewer, 1936 — Mauritius (1 species)
* "Vandaravua" Roewer, 1929 — India (1 species)
Footnotes
References
*'s Biology Catalog: [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Podoctidae.txt Podoctidae]
* (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. "Harvard University Press" ISBN 0-674-02343-9
