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Taxonomy
Sclerosomatidae Simon, 1879
Nomenclature
Family:
Sclerosomatidae Simon, 1879
Usage:
valid
Reference:
Les Arachnides de France p.158
Vernacular names:
Vernacular name:
Harvestmen
Language:
English
SUMMARY
A large family of harvestmen represented by more than 1000 species distributed worldwide. Two subfamilies Leiobuninae and Gagrellinae dominate in the Americas with the latter especially speciose in Central America.
Recently the "Metopilio group" have been split away, and proposed as their own family Globipedidae