Genus Fumontana

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Opiliones (Harvestmen)

Suborder Laniatores (Armoured harvestmen)

Family Buemarinoidae

Genus Fumontana

Explanation of Names

Fumontana Shear 1977

Numbers

monotypic genus

Identification

Morphologically unmistakable, with long-spined tubercles on legs I and II, a spiked eye tubercle, and striking coloration (particularly live specimens).

Range

Known from the mountains of western North Carolina, and adjacent states

Habitat

Locations varying in elevation from approximately 400 to 1000 meters, with most populations found above 700 meters. Found most consistently inside well-decayed hemlock logs on moderate slopes, and seems most abundant in logs that are decayed to the point that the soil/log boundary becomes indefinite.

Print References

Shear WA 1977 Fumontana deprehendor, n. gen., n. sp., the first triaenonychid opilionid from eastern North America (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 3(3), 177–183. (PDF online)

Shear WA 1978 A new record for the rare opilionid Fumontana deprehendor (Opiliones, Triaenonychidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 6(1), 79. (PDF online)

Thomas SM & M Hedin 2006 Natural history and distribution of the enigmatic southern Appalachian opilionid, Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Laniatores: Trieanonychidae), with an assessment of morphological variation. Zootaxa, 1242, 21–36. (PDF online)

Thomas SM & M Hedin 2008 Multigenic phylogeographic divergence in the paleoendemic southern Appalachian opilionid Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46(2), 645–658. (PDF online)

Kury AB, Mendes AC, Souza DR. World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 1: Laniatores – Travunioidea and Triaenonychoidea. Biodiversity Data Journal. 2014;(2):e4094. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e4094. (online PDF)

Contributed by Charles D. R. Stephen on 18 February, 2009 - 7:45pm
Additional contributions by v belov, mhedin
Last updated 5 January, 2017 - 5:39pm

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