Genus Taracus - Snail-eating harvestmen

Classification · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Print References

is this a false scorpion - Taracus gertschi

Ozopore behind 4th pair of legs - Taracus

Found on a chanterelle mushroom - Taracus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Opiliones (Harvestmen)

Suborder Dyspnoi

Superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea

Family Taracidae

Genus Taracus (Snail-eating harvestmen)

Numbers

12 species in western US + adjacent Canada

Range

New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta

Habitat

forests, several species known only from caves

Print References

Briggs, T.S. (1969) Cave adaptations in phalangids of genus Taracus (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, San Francisco, 45(1), 73. (online PDF)

Shear W.A. & JG Warfel. 2016. The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidae). Zootaxa 4180(1):1-71.

Contributed by tom murray on 9 February, 2008 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by mhedin, Hisserdude
Last updated 7 July, 2020 - 8:15pm

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