The Travuniidae are a small family of harvestman with little more than ten described species, within the suborder Laniatores.
Description
Travuniidae are at the most three millimeters long, with slender, unarmed legs and robust, strongly spined
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[ (2007): Travuniidae Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 237ff]
Distribution
Travuniidae have been found in
Europe, Japan and the United States. Although some were described from
Slovenia, these records proved to be erroneous.
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Relationships
Travuniidae are most closely related to Cladonychiidae; it is even possible that Travuniidae is paraphyletic in respect to this family.[
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Name
The name of the type genus is derived from the Latin name of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[
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Species
Peltonychiinae
- * Peltonychia leprieurii (Lucas, 1860) — Buco Dell'Orso (cave, northern Italy)
- * Peltonychia posteumicola (Roewer, 1935)
- * Peltonychia gabria Roewer, 1935
- * Peltonychia tenuis Roewer, 1935
Travuniinae
- * Abasola troglodytes (Roewer, 1915) — Dalmatia
- * Abasola sarea Roewer, 1935 — Pyrenees
- * Abasola hofferi Silhavy, 1937 — Yugoslavia
- * Arbasus caecus (Simon, 1911) — southern France
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Dinaria Hadzi, 1932 — palearctic
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Kratochvíliola Roewer, 1935 — palearctic
- * Kratochvíliola navarica Roewer, 1935
- * Speleonychia sengeri Briggs, 1974 — Washington
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Travunia Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932
- * Travunia jandai Kratochvíl, 1938 — Yugoslavia
incertae sedis
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Yuria Suzuki, 1964 — Japan
- * Yuria pulcra Suzuki, 1964
- :* Yuria pulcra pulcra Suzuki, 1964
- :* Yuria pulcra briggsi Suzuki, 1975
- * Buemarinoa patrizii Roewer, 1956 — Sardinia
Footnotes
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's Biology Catalog: Travuniidae
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(eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press
