Gonyleptoidea
Metagonyleptes calcar (Gonyleptidae)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Laniatores
Infraorder:	Grassatores
Superfamily:	Gonyleptoidea Sundevall, 1833

Gonyleptoidea is the most diverse superfamily of the Grassatores. It includes around 2,500 species distributed in the Neotropics. They are characterized by the simplified male genitalia, with the glans free subapical in the truncus.

Gonyleptoidea is the only group of harvestmen to show maternal care of offspring.^[1]

Families

• Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973
• Ampycidae Kury, 2003
• Askawachidae Kury & Carvalho, 2020
• Cosmetidae Koch, 1839
• Cranaidae Roewer, 1913
• Cryptogeobiiidae Kury, 2014
• Gerdesiidae Bragagnolo, Hara & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2015
• Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833
• Manaosbiidae Roewer, 1943
• Metasarcidae Kury, 1994
• Nomoclastidae Roewer, 1943
• Otilioleptidae Acosta, 2019
• Prostygnidae Roewer, 1913
• Stygnidae Simon, 1879
• Stygnopsidae Sørensen, 1932

References

External links

• Media related to Gonyleptoidea at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Gonyleptoidea at Wikispecies

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