Troguloidea

Troguloidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 4 genera (2 extinct), found mostly in Europe, Asia, and North America (as of 2023).^[1][2]

Troguloidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Dyspnoi
Superfamily:	Troguloidea Sundevall, 1833
Families
Dicranolasmatidae Simon, 1879 Nemastomatidae Simon, 1872 Nipponopsalididae Martens, 1976 Trogulidae Sundevall, 1833 †Eotrogulidae Petrunkevitch, 1955 †Nemastomoididae Petrunkevitch, 1955
Diversity
4 families, several genera

Description

The superfamily Troguloidea was described by Sundevall, with the type genus as Trogulus Latreille, 1802 by original implicit etymological designation.^[1]

Taxonomy

Main article: List of Dyspnoi species

Troguloidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.^[1] Of the 6 genera (as of 2023), 2 of those are extinct. The scheme below largely reflects Schönhofer (2013).^[3]

• Dicranolasmatidae Simon, 1879
• Nemastomatidae Simon, 1872
• Nipponopsalididae Martens, 1976
• Trogulidae Sundevall, 1833
• †Eotrogulidae Petrunkevitch, 1955
• †Nemastomoididae Petrunkevitch, 1955