Agoristenidae
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| Family: | Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973
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Agoristenidae are a neotropical harvestman family of the Suborder Laniatores, in the superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
Name[edit]
The name of the type genus is a combination of Ancient Greek agora "gathering" and stenos "few", referring to the rarity of the family at the time of its discovery.[1]
Description[edit]
These harvestmen range in body length from two to about five millimeters. Their coloring ranges from yellowish to dark brown. Some show yellow stripes or white or green patches.[1]
Distribution[edit]
The subfamily Agoristeninae is endemic to the Greater Antilles. The other subfamilies have been found from northern South America.
Relationships[edit]
In older schemes, the now obsolete "Zamorinae" were the basal clade, with Agoristeninae and Leiosteninae as sister groups. Agoristeninae is sister group to all Gonyleptoidea except Stygnopsidae.[1]
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(after Kury 1997b, 1997c)
Species[edit]
Agoristeninae[edit]
- Agoristenus Silhavy, 1973
- Agoristenus cubanus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
- Agoristenus haitensis Silhavy, 1973 — Haiti
- Ahotta Silhavy, 1973
- Ahotta hispaniolica Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
- Calmotrinus Silhavy, 1973
- Calmotrinus turquinensis Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
- Dumitrescuella Avram, 1977
- Dumitrescuella ornata Avram, 1977 — Cuba
- Haitimera Silhavy, 1973
- Haitimera paeninsularis Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
- Lichirtes Silhavy, 1973
- Lichirtes hexapodoides Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
- Meriosfera Silhavy, 1973
- Meriosfera gertschi Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
- Meriosfera lineata Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
- Orghidaniella Avram, 1977
- Orghidaniella granpiedrae Avram, 1977 — Cuba
- Piratrinus Silhavy, 1973
- Piratrinus calcaratus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
- Torreana Avram, 1977
- Torreana poeyi Avram, 1977 — Cuba
- Torreana spinata Avram, 1977 — Cuba
- Vampyrostenus Silhavy, 1976
- Vampyrostenus kratochvili Silhavy, 1976 — Puerto Rico
- Yunquenus Silhavy, 1973
- Yunquenus portoricanus Silhavy, 1973 — Puerto Rico
Globibuninae[edit]
- Globibunus Roewer, 1912
- Globibunus rubrofemoratus Roewer, 1912 — Ecuador
- Rivetinus Roewer, 1914
- Rivetinus minutus Roewer, 1914 — Ecuador
- Rivetinus vulcanus Kury, 1997 — Ecuador
- Sabanilla Roewer, 1913
- Sabanilla ornata Roewer, 1913 — Venezuela [Colombia?, Ecuador?]
Leiosteninae[edit]
- Andrescava Roewer, 1957
- Andrescava sturmi Roewer, 1963 — Colombia
- Andrescava weyrauchi Roewer, 1957 — Peru
- Avima Roewer, 1949 [Contra preoccupied Trinella (!After Hallan)].
- Avima albidecorata (Silhavy, 1979) — Venezuela
- Avima albimaculata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela
- Avima albiornata (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago
- Avima anitas Porto & Colmenares, 2014 — Brazil (!After Hallan)
- Avima azulitai (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
- Avima bicoloripes Roewer, 1949 — Brazil
- Avima bordoni (Muñoz-Cuevas, 1975) — Venezuela
- Avima bubonica (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima chapmani (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
- Avima checkeleyi (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
- Avima chiguaraensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima falconensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima flavomaculata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima glabrata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela
- Avima granulosa (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela [Caution, later misspelling as "Avima granulata" in some publications)
- Avima intermedia (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago
- Avima matintaperera (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil
- Avima naranjoi (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela
- Avima octomaculata (Roewer, 1963) — Peru
- Avima olmosa Roewer, 1956 — Peru
- Avima palpogranulosa (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela
- Avima quadrata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima scabra (Roewer, 1963) — Colombia
- Avima severa (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela
- Avima soaresorum (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil
- Avima subparamera (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Avima troglobia Rocha, 1996 — Venezuela
- Avima tuttifrutti García & Pastrana-Montiel, 2021 — Colombia
- Avima venezuelica Soares & Avram, 1981 — Venezuela
- Avima wayuunaiki García, González Vargas & Gutiérrez Estrada, 2022 — Colombia
- Barinas González-Sponga, 1987
- Barinas flava González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Barinas guanenta García & Ahumada-C., 2022 — Colombia
- Barinas piragua Ahumada-C. & García, 2020 — Colombia
- Barinas virginis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Barlovento González-Sponga, 1987
- Barlovento albapatella González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Barlovento littorei González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Barlovento marmoratus (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela [!Note: Altered suffix]
- Barlovento salmeronensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Leptostygnus Mello-Leitão, 1940
- Leptostygnus leptochirus Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Colombia
- Leptostygnus marchantiarum (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
- Leptostygnus yarigui García & Villarreal, 2020 — Colombia
- Muscopilio Villarreal & García, 2021
- Muscopilio onod Villarreal & García, 2021 — Colombia
- Nemastygnus Roewer, 1929
- Nemastygnus ovalis Roewer, 1929 — Colombia
- Ocoita González-Sponga, 1987
- Ocoita mina González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Ocoita tapipensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela (= syn. Ocoita servae González-Sponga, 1987)
- Paravima Caporiacco, 1951
- Paravima goodnightorum Caporiacco, 1951 — Venezuela (= syn. Paravima flumencaurimarensis González-Sponga, 1987)
- Paravima locumida González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Paravima lokura García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia
- Paravima magistri García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia
- Paravima morritomacairensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
- Paravima plana (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1949) — Venezuela
- Paravima propespelunca González-Sponga, 1987 (= syn. Paravima acanthoconus Villarreal & DoNascimiento, 2005)
- Paravima quirozi (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela
- Paravima totoro García & Villarreal, 2023 — Venezuela
- Taulisa Roewer, 1956
- Taulisa koepckei Roewer, 1956 — Peru
- Vima Hirst, 1912
- Vima insignis Hirst, 1912 — Guyana [? Brazil]
Agoristenidae Insertae sedis[edit]
- Micrisaeus Roewer, 1957
- Micrisaeus gracillimus Roewer, 1957 — Peru
Excluded from Agoristenidae, now placed elsewhere:
- For Palcabius Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis
- Palcabius palpalis Roewer, 1956 — Peru
- For Ramonus Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis
- Ramonus conifrons Roewer, 1956 — Peru
- For Zamora Roewer, 1927, see Nomoclastidae
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Kury, Adriano B. (1997b): A new subfamily of Agoristenidae, with comments on suprageneric relationships of the family (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores). Trop. Zool. 10: 333-346.
- Kury, Adriano B. (1997c): Os Stygnopsidae na filogenia de Gonyleptoidea, com comentários sobre a biogeografia da superfamilia. P. 30 in Actas del Primer Encuentro de Aracnólogos del Cono Sur. Montevideo, Uruguay.
- Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9
- Pinto-da-Rocha, R. and Hara, M.R. (2010) : New familial assignments for three species of Neotropical harvestmen based on cladistic analysis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa, 2241: 33–46.
External links[edit]
Media related to Agoristenidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Agoristenidae at Wikispecies
