Stylocellidae
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The Stylocellidae are a family of harvestmen with about 30 described species, all of which occur from India
to New Guinea
. Members of this family are from one to seven millimeters long. While Stylocellus species have eyes, these are absent in the other two genera.
stylos "pillar" and Latin
ocellus "eye", referring to the elongated shape of the animal, compared to Sironidae
, and the presence of eyes.
India
India , 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...
to 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...
. Members of this family are from one to seven millimeters long. While Stylocellus species have eyes, these are absent in the other two genera.
Name
The name of the type genus is combined from 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...
stylos "pillar" and Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
ocellus "eye", referring to the elongated shape of the animal, compared to Sironidae
Sironidae
The Sironidae are a family of harvestmen with more than 30 described species.The family shows a Laurasian distribution, with most species found in temperate Europe and the west coast of North America...
, and the presence of eyes.
Species
- Fangensis Rambla, 1994 — 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...
- Fangensis cavernarus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005
- Fangensis insulanus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005
- Fangensis leclerci Rambla, 1994
- Fangensis spelaeus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005
- Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882 - 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...
- Leptopsalis beccarii Thorell, 1882
- Meghalaya Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade — 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...
- Meghalaya annandalei Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade (not yet published)
- Miopsalis Thorell, 1890 — Pulu-Pinang, Malaysia
- Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890
- Stylocellus WestwoodJohn Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
, 1874 - Stylocellus collinsi Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus dumoga Shear, 1993 — IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
- Stylocellus globosus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus gryllospecus Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus hillyardi Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
- Stylocellus javanus (Thorell, 1882) — 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...
- Stylocellus kinabalu Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus laevichelis RoewerCarl Friedrich RoewerCarl Friedrich Roewer was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae....
, 1946 — Malaysia - Stylocellus leakeyi Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus lionotus PocockReginald Innes PocockReginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed...
, 1897 — 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.... - Stylocellus lydekkeri Clouse & Giribet, 2007 — Indonesia
- Stylocellus modestus Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — CelebesSulawesiSulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
- Stylocellus mulu Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus novaguineae Clouse & Giribet, 2007 — Indonesia
- Stylocellus pangrango Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
- Stylocellus pocockii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — North Borneo
- Stylocellus ramblae Giribet, 2002 — 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...
- Stylocellus sabah Shear, 1993 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus sedgwicki Shear, 1979 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus silhavyi Rambla, 1991 — Malaysia
- Stylocellus spinifrons Roewer, 1946 — Malaysia: 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...
- Stylocellus sulcatus Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Java
- Stylocellus sumatranus Westwood, 1874 — Sumatra
- Stylocellus tambusisi Shear, 1993 — Indonesia
- Stylocellus tarumpitao Shear, 1993 — 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...
- Stylocellus thorellii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Sumatra
- Stylocellus weberii Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Sumatra