Neoscotolemon

Neoscotolemon is a genus of harvestmen in the superfamily Samooidea with seven described species (as of January 2025).^[1][2] All species are found in the Greater Antilles and United States of America in Florida.^[1][3] An overview of the taxonomy was provided by Pérez-González et al. (2025).^[4]

Neoscotolemon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Laniatores
Infraorder:	Grassatores
Superfamily:	Samooidea
Genus:	Neoscotolemon Roewer, 1912
Type species
Scotolemon pictipes Banks, 1908
Diversity
7 spp. (see text)
Synonyms
Citranus Goodnight & Goodnight 1942 Rula Goodnight & Goodnight 1942 Vlachiolus Šilhavý 1979

Description

The genus Neoscotolemon was described by Carl F. Roewer, 1912^[5] with the type species Scotolemon pictipes Banks, 1908.

Species

These species belong to the genus Neoscotolemon:

• Neoscotolemon armasi Pérez-González, Mamani & Proud, 2025 – Cuba
• Neoscotolemon bolivari (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945) – Cuba
• Neoscotolemon cotilla (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945) – Cuba
• Neoscotolemon pictipes (Banks, 1908) – Cuba
• Neoscotolemon spinifer (Packard, 1888) – USA (Florida), (plus dubious records from Cayman Islands and Jamaica)
• Neoscotolemon tancahensis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1951) – Mexico (Yucatán), Belize
• Neoscotolemon vojtechi (Šilhavý, 1979) – Cuba

(Neoscotolemon luzi = Metapellobunus lutzi)

Etymology

The genus is masculine.