Aim We tested the hypothesis that areas that acted as historical refugia during restrictive
climate regimes currently harbour higher levels of biodiversity than areas that lacked refugia …

This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than
6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known …

The hitherto monotypic opilionid genus Fangensis Rambla, 1994 is re-evaluated from new
material collected in northern, western and southern Thailand. The original description of F …

Palpigradi are a poorly understood group of delicate arachnids, often found in caves or other
subterranean habitats. Concomitantly, they have been neglected from a phylogenetic point …

A morphological phylogenetic analysis is conducted of Australasian harvestmen previously
included in the family Monoscutidae. Monophyly of Monoscutidae is not supported, and the …

For the first time a hypothesis of homology is proposed for the macrosetae which compose
the armature of the distal truncus penis of the Gonyleptoidea. Previous attempts to name …

The paleoendemic opilionid Fumontana deprehendor is restricted to a small area of mid-
elevation forested habitats in the southern Blue Ridge province of the Appalachian …

1. The twenty-one British species of harvestmen have all been found in the Oxford district
with the exception of Nelima silvatica. Seventeen of them have been found in Wytham …

This paper presents the results of a study of Crimean opilionids collected by the second
author from 1999ñ2001. In total, seven species from the families Dicranolasmatidae and …