Oncopodidae
Encyclopedia
The Oncopodidae are a family of harvestmen within the suborder Laniatores
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onkos "swelling" and podos "leg".
colored with some dark brown patterns. A few undescribed Gnomulus species are orange.
from Indonesia, almost reaching New Guinea
on Waigeo
, up north into the Himalayan region.
Laniatores
Laniatores is the largest suborder of the arachnid order Opiliones with over 4,000 described species worldwide. The majority of the species are highly dependent on humid environments and usually correlated with tropical and temperate forest habitats....
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Name
The name of the type genus is a combination of Ancient GreekAncient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
onkos "swelling" and podos "leg".
Description
Oncopodidae range in body size from about two to almost eleven millimeters. The legs are relatively short and stout. Most species are amberAmber
Amber is fossilized tree resin , which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents...
colored with some dark brown patterns. A few undescribed Gnomulus species are orange.
Distribution
This family is known from Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
from Indonesia, almost reaching New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
on Waigeo
Waigeo
Waigeo is an island in West Papua province of eastern Indonesia. The island is also known as Amberi, or Waigiu. It is the largest of the four main islands in the Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera and about 65 km to the northwest coast of New Guinea...
, up north into the Himalayan region.
Species
- Biantoncopus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998
- Biantoncopus fuscus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — LeyteLeyteLeyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is Tacloban City and occupies the northern three-quarters of the Leyte Island. Leyte is located west of Samar Island, north of Southern Leyte and south of Biliran...
(PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
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- Caenoncopus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
- Caenoncopus affinis Martens & Schwendinger, 1998
- Caenoncopus cuspidatus (P. J. Schwendinger, 1992)
- Caenoncopus tenuis Martens & Schwendinger, 1998
- Gnomulus Thorell, 1890
- Gnomulus aborensis (Roewer, 1913) — Arunachal PradeshArunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh is a state of India, located in the far northeast. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Burma in the east, Bhutan in the west, and the People's Republic of China in the north. The majority of the territory is claimed by...
(northeast IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) - Gnomulus annulipes (Pocock, 1897) — SarawakSarawakSarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , Sarawak is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia followed by Sabah, the second largest state located to the North- East.The administrative capital is Kuching, which...
(BorneoBorneoBorneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
) - Gnomulus armillatus (Thorell, 1891) — Sumatra
- Gnomulus asli Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus baharu Schwendinger, in Martens & Schwendinger 1998
- Gnomulus carinatus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — KalimantanKalimantanIn English, the term Kalimantan refers to the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, while in Indonesian, the term "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo....
(Indonesia) - Gnomulus claviger Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — LuzonLuzonLuzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...
(Philippines) - Gnomulus coniceps Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — Luzon
- Gnomulus conigerus (P. J. Schwendinger, 1992) — SabahSabahSabah is one of 13 member states of Malaysia. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in the country after Sarawak, which it borders on its southwest. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south...
(Malaysia) - Gnomulus crassipes Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Luzon
- Gnomulus crucifer Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — Luzon
- Gnomulus drescoi (Silhavy, 1962) — Sumatra
- Gnomulus exsudans Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Sabah
- Gnomulus goodnighti (Suzuki, 1977) — MindanaoMindanaoMindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country, which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands. The other two are Luzon and the Visayas. The island of Mindanao is called The...
(Philippines) - Gnomulus hamatus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Luzon
- Gnomulus hirsutus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus hutan Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Sarawak
- Gnomulus hyatti (Martens, 1977) — NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
- Gnomulus imadatei (Suzuki, 1970) — BruneiBruneiBrunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
- Gnomulus insularis (Roewer, 1927) — PenangPenangPenang is a state in Malaysia and the name of its constituent island, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. It is bordered by Kedah in the north and east, and Perak in the south. Penang is the second smallest Malaysian state in area after Perlis, and the...
? (Malaysia) - Gnomulus javanicus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — JavaJavaJava is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
- Gnomulus laevis (Roewer, 1915) — BorneoBorneoBorneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
- Gnomulus lannaianus (Schwendinger, 1992) — ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
- Gnomulus laruticus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus latoperculum Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Sulawesi
- Gnomulus leofeae Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Burma
- Gnomulus leyteensis Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — Leyte
- Gnomulus lomani Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Borneo, Sumatra?
- Gnomulus maculatus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — Luzon
- Gnomulus marginatus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Thailand
- Gnomulus matabesar Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — HalmaheraHalmaheraHalmahera is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia.Halmahera has a land area of 17,780 km² and a population in 1995 of 162,728...
(Indonesia) - Gnomulus minor N. Tsurusaki, 1990 — PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
- Gnomulus monticola Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus obscurus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Sarawak
- Gnomulus palawanensis (S. Suzuki, 1982) — PalawanPalawanPalawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region or Region 4. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction. The islands of Palawan stretch from Mindoro in the northeast to Borneo in the...
(Philippines) - Gnomulus piliger (Pocock, 1903) — Thailand
- Gnomulus pilosus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus pulvillatus (Pocock, 1903) — West Malaysia
- Gnomulus rostratoideus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — West Malaysia, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
- Gnomulus rostratus Thorell, 1890 — Penang
- Gnomulus ryssie Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Thailand
- Gnomulus sinensis Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — SichuanSichuan' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...
(ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
) - Gnomulus spiniceps Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
- Gnomulus sumatranus Thorell, 1891 — Sumatra
- Gnomulus sundaicus (P. J. Schwendinger, 1992) — Sarawak
- Gnomulus thorelli (Sørensen, 1932) — Java
- Gnomulus tuberculatus Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Sumatra
- Gnomulus tumidifrons Schwendinger & Martens, 2002 — Halmahera
- OncopusOncopusOncopus is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.-References:*...
Thorell, 1876 - Oncopus doriae Thorell, 1876 — Sarawak
- Oncopus expatriatus (Schwendinger & Martens, 2004) — Thailand?
- Oncopus feae Thorell, 1890 — Penang
- Oncopus hosei Pocock, 1897 — Sarawak
- Oncopus lingga (Schwendinger & Martens, 2004) — Lingga IslandsLingga IslandsNot to be confused with "Linga", a common Scottish island name, see Linga The Lingga Islands or Lingga Archipelago are a group of islands in Indonesia, located south of Singapore, along both sides of the equator, off the eastern coast of Riau Islands province on Sumatra island...
(Indonesia) - Oncopus malayanus (Schwendinger & Martens, 2004) — West Malaysia
- Oncopus megachelis P. J. Schwendinger, 1992 — Sabah
- Oncopus tiomanensis (Schwendinger & Martens, 2004) — Tioman IslandTioman IslandTioman Island is a small island located 32 km off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the state of Pahang, and is some 39 km long and 12 km wide. It has eight main villages, the largest and most populous being Kampung Tekek in the north...
(Malaysia) - Oncopus truncatus Thorell, 1891 — Singapore
- Palaeoncopus Martens & Schwendinger, 1998 — Sumatra
- Palaeoncopus gunung Martens & Schwendinger, 1998
- Palaeoncopus katik Martens & Schwendinger, 1998
- Palaeoncopus kerdil Martens & Schwendinger, 1998