- Source: Agoristenidae
Agoristenidae are a neotropical harvestman family of the Suborder Laniatores, in the superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
Name
The name of the type genus is a combination of Ancient Greek agora "gathering" and stenos "few", referring to the rarity of the family at the time of its discovery.
Description
These harvestmen range in body length from two to about five millimeters. Their coloring ranges from yellowish to dark brown. Some show yellow stripes or white or green patches.
Distribution
The subfamily Agoristeninae is endemic to the Greater Antilles. The other subfamilies have been found from northern South America.
Relationships
In older schemes, the now obsolete "Zamorinae" were the basal clade, with Agoristeninae and Leiosteninae as sister groups. Agoristeninae is sister group to all Gonyleptoidea except Stygnopsidae.
(after Kury 1997b, 1997c)
Species
= Agoristeninae
=Agoristenus Silhavy, 1973
Agoristenus cubanus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
Agoristenus haitensis Silhavy, 1973 — Haiti
Ahotta Silhavy, 1973
Ahotta hispaniolica Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
Calmotrinus Silhavy, 1973
Calmotrinus turquinensis Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
Dumitrescuella Avram, 1977
Dumitrescuella ornata Avram, 1977 — Cuba
Haitimera Silhavy, 1973
Haitimera paeninsularis Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
Lichirtes Silhavy, 1973
Lichirtes hexapodoides Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
Meriosfera Silhavy, 1973
Meriosfera gertschi Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
Meriosfera lineata Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola
Orghidaniella Avram, 1977
Orghidaniella granpiedrae Avram, 1977 — Cuba
Piratrinus Silhavy, 1973
Piratrinus calcaratus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba
Torreana Avram, 1977
Torreana poeyi Avram, 1977 — Cuba
Torreana spinata Avram, 1977 — Cuba
Vampyrostenus Silhavy, 1976
Vampyrostenus kratochvili Silhavy, 1976 — Puerto Rico
Yunquenus Silhavy, 1973
Yunquenus portoricanus Silhavy, 1973 — Puerto Rico
= Globibuninae
=Globibunus Roewer, 1912
Globibunus rubrofemoratus Roewer, 1912 — Ecuador
Rivetinus Roewer, 1914
Rivetinus minutus Roewer, 1914 — Ecuador
Rivetinus vulcanus Kury, 1997 — Ecuador
Sabanilla Roewer, 1913
Sabanilla ornata Roewer, 1913 — Venezuela [Colombia?, Ecuador?]
= Leiosteninae
=Andrescava Roewer, 1957
Andrescava sturmi Roewer, 1963 — Colombia
Andrescava weyrauchi Roewer, 1957 — Peru
Avima Roewer, 1949 [Contra preoccupied Trinella (!After Hallan)].
Avima albidecorata (Silhavy, 1979) — Venezuela
Avima albimaculata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela
Avima albiornata (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago
Avima anitas Porto & Colmenares, 2014 — Brazil (!After Hallan)
Avima azulitai (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
Avima bicoloripes Roewer, 1949 — Brazil
Avima bordoni (Muñoz-Cuevas, 1975) — Venezuela
Avima bubonica (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima chapmani (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
Avima checkeleyi (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela
Avima chiguaraensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima falconensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima flavomaculata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima glabrata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela
Avima granulosa (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela [Caution, later misspelling as "Avima granulata" in some publications)
Avima intermedia (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago
Avima matintaperera (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil
Avima naranjoi (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela
Avima octomaculata (Roewer, 1963) — Peru
Avima olmosa Roewer, 1956 — Peru
Avima palpogranulosa (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela
Avima quadrata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima scabra (Roewer, 1963) — Colombia
Avima severa (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela
Avima soaresorum (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil
Avima subparamera (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Avima troglobia Rocha, 1996 — Venezuela
Avima tuttifrutti García & Pastrana-Montiel, 2021 — Colombia
Avima venezuelica Soares & Avram, 1981 — Venezuela
Avima wayuunaiki García, González Vargas & Gutiérrez Estrada, 2022 — Colombia
Barinas González-Sponga, 1987
Barinas flava González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Barinas guanenta García & Ahumada-C., 2022 — Colombia
Barinas piragua Ahumada-C. & García, 2020 — Colombia
Barinas virginis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Barlovento González-Sponga, 1987
Barlovento albapatella González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Barlovento littorei González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Barlovento marmoratus (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela [!Note: Altered suffix]
Barlovento salmeronensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Leptostygnus Mello-Leitão, 1940
Leptostygnus leptochirus Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Colombia
Leptostygnus marchantiarum (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela
Leptostygnus yarigui García & Villarreal, 2020 — Colombia
Muscopilio Villarreal & García, 2021
Muscopilio onod Villarreal & García, 2021 — Colombia
Nemastygnus Roewer, 1929
Nemastygnus ovalis Roewer, 1929 — Colombia
Ocoita González-Sponga, 1987
Ocoita mina González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Ocoita tapipensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela (= syn. Ocoita servae González-Sponga, 1987)
Paravima Caporiacco, 1951
Paravima goodnightorum Caporiacco, 1951 — Venezuela (= syn. Paravima flumencaurimarensis González-Sponga, 1987)
Paravima locumida González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Paravima lokura García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia
Paravima magistri García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia
Paravima morritomacairensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela
Paravima plana (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1949) — Venezuela
Paravima propespelunca González-Sponga, 1987 (= syn. Paravima acanthoconus Villarreal & DoNascimiento, 2005)
Paravima quirozi (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela
Paravima totoro García & Villarreal, 2023 — Venezuela
Taulisa Roewer, 1956
Taulisa koepckei Roewer, 1956 — Peru
Vima Hirst, 1912
Vima insignis Hirst, 1912 — Guyana [? Brazil]
= Agoristenidae Insertae sedis
=Micrisaeus Roewer, 1957
Micrisaeus gracillimus Roewer, 1957 — Peru
Excluded from Agoristenidae, now placed elsewhere:
For Palcabius Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis
Palcabius palpalis Roewer, 1956 — Peru
For Ramonus Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis
Ramonus conifrons Roewer, 1956 — Peru
For Zamora Roewer, 1927, see Nomoclastidae
References
Further reading
Kury, Adriano B. (1997b): A new subfamily of Agoristenidae, with comments on suprageneric relationships of the family (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores). Trop. Zool. 10: 333-346.
Kury, Adriano B. (1997c): Os Stygnopsidae na filogenia de Gonyleptoidea, com comentários sobre a biogeografia da superfamilia. P. 30 in Actas del Primer Encuentro de Aracnólogos del Cono Sur. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9
Pinto-da-Rocha, R. and Hara, M.R. (2010) : New familial assignments for three species of Neotropical harvestmen based on cladistic analysis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa, 2241: 33–46.
External links
Media related to Agoristenidae at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Agoristenidae at Wikispecies