Podoctidae
Podoctidae is a family of the harvestman infraorder Grassatores with about 130 described species.
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. The oldest known member of the family is Burmalomanius from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar.
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
A detailed list of included species is HERE, which along with generic list below are derived from the World Catalog of Opiliones. Older versions were largely from the now defunct Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
Erecananinae
Erecanana Strand, 1911 — Kenya, Tanzania, etc., inc. Madagascar, Réunion Iyonus Suzuki, 1964 — Japan Lomanius Roewer, 1923 — China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam Paralomanius Goodnight & Goodnight, 1948 — Philippines, Palau Strandibalonius Roewer, 1912 — Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Melanesia
Ibaloniinae
Asproleria Roewer, 1949 — New Guinea Austribalonius Forster, 1955 — Australia Ceylonositalces Özdikmen, 2006 — Sri Lanka Gargenna Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia Heteroibalonius Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 — Indonesia Heteropodoctis Roewer, 1912 — Papua New Guinea/Indonesia Holozoster Loman, 1902 — Seychelles Ibalonianus Roewer, 1923 — Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Ibalonius Karsch, 1880 — Philippines, New Caledonia, Seychelles, New Guinea, Solomons Leytpodoctis Martens, 1993 — Philippines Orobunus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 — Papua New Guinea, Indonesia Paramesoceras Roewer, 1915 — Papua New Guinea Pentacros Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia Podoctinus Roewer, 1923 — Papua New Guinea Proholozoster Roewer, 1915 — Papua New Guinea Santobius Roewer, 1949 — Melanesia Sitalcicus Roewer, 1923 — Seychelles Waigeucola Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia
Podoctinae
Baramella Roewer, 1949 — Malaysia Baramia Hirst, 1912 — Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia Baso Roewer, 1923 — Indonesia Basoides Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia Bistota Roewer, 1927 — India Bonea Roewer, 1913 — Indonesia, Philippines Borneojapetus Özdikmen, 2006 — Indonesia/Malaysia Centrobunus Loman, 1902 — Seychelles Dongmoa Roewer, 1927 — Japan, Vietnam Eupodoctis Roewer, 1923 — India, Sri Lanka Eurytromma Roewer, 1949 — Sri Lanka Gaditusa Roewer, 1949 — Borneo Hoplodino Roewer, 1915 — Indonesia, Singapore Idjena Roewer, 1927 — Indonesia Idzubius Roewer, 1949 — Japan Laponcea Roewer, 1936 — Mauritius Lejokus Roewer, 1949 — Malaysia Lundulla Roewer, 1927 — Malaysia Metapodoctis Roewer, 1915 — Taiwan, Thailand Neopodoctis Roewer, 1912 — Sri Lanka Oppodoctis Roewer, 1927 — Philippines Peromona Roewer, 1949 — Seychelles Podoctellus Roewer, 1949 — Malaysia Podoctis Thorell, 1890 — Malaysia Podoctomma Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia Podoctops Roewer, 1949 — Indonesia Pumbaraius Roewer, 1927 — India Sibolgia Roewer, 1923 — Indonesia Stobitus Roewer, 1949 — Malaysia Tandikudius Roewer, 1929 — India Trencona Roewer, 1949 — — Indonesia/Malaysia Trigonobunus Loman, 1894 — Indonesia Tryssetus Roewer, 1936 — Mauritius Vandaravua Roewer, 1929 — India