Stylocellidae

Stylocellidae Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Cyphophthalmi
Superfamily:	Stylocelloidea Hansen & Sørensen 1904
Family:	Stylocellidae Hansen & Sørensen, 1904
Genera
see text
Diversity
3 genera, c. 30 species

The Stylocellidae are a family of harvestmen with about 30 described species, all of which occur from India to New Guinea. Members of this family are from one to seven millimeters long. While Stylocellus species have eyes, these are absent in the other two genera.

Name

The name of the type genus is combined from Ancient Greek stylos "pillar" and Latin ocellus "eye", referring to the elongated shape of the animal, compared to Sironidae, and the presence of eyes.

Species

• Fangensis Rambla, 1994 — Thailand
  • Fangensis cavernarus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005
  • Fangensis insulanus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005
  • Fangensis leclerci Rambla, 1994
  • Fangensis spelaeus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005

• Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882 - Sumatra
  • Leptopsalis beccarii Thorell, 1882

• Meghalaya Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade — India
  • Meghalaya annandalei Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade (not yet published)

• Miopsalis Thorell, 1890 — Pulu-Pinang, Malaysia
  • Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890

• Stylocellus Westwood, 1874
  • Stylocellus collinsi Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus dumoga Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus globosus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus gryllospecus Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus hillyardi Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus javanus (Thorell, 1882) — Java
  • Stylocellus kinabalu Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus laevichelis Roewer, 1946 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus leakeyi Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus lionotus Pocock, 1897 — Borneo
  • Stylocellus lydekkeri Clouse & Giribet, 2007 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus modestus Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Celebes
  • Stylocellus mulu Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus novaguineae Clouse & Giribet, 2007 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus pangrango Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus pocockii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — North Borneo
  • Stylocellus ramblae Giribet, 2002 — Singapore
  • Stylocellus sabah Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus sedgwicki Shear, 1979 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus silhavyi Rambla, 1991 — Malaysia
  • Stylocellus spinifrons Roewer, 1946 — Malaysia: Sarawak
  • Stylocellus sulcatus Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Java
  • Stylocellus sumatranus Westwood, 1874 — Sumatra
  • Stylocellus tambusisi Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
  • Stylocellus tarumpitao Shear, 1993 — Philippines
  • Stylocellus thorellii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Sumatra
  • Stylocellus weberii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Sumatra
• †Palaeosiro Poinar 2008
  • †Palaeosiro burmanicum Poinar 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

• Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Stylocellidae
• Checklist of the Cyphophthalmi species of the World
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9

Further reading

• Schwendinger, P.J. & Giribet, G. (2005): The systematics of the south-east Asian genus Fangensis Rambla, 1994 (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Invertebrate Systematics 19: 297-323.