Sabaconidae

Sabaconidae
Sabacon cavicolens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Dyspnoi
Superfamily:	Ischyropsalidoidea
Family:	Sabaconidae Dresco, 1970
Genera
Sabacon Taracus
Diversity
2 genera, c. 45 species

The Sabaconidae are a family of harvestmen with about 50 known species.

The species range in body length from 1.2 to 5.5 mm. The relatively small chelicerae are sexually dimorphic. In Taracus the chelicerae are strongly elongated. The characteristic, often relatively stout pedipalps are often longer than the body.

Distribution

Sabaconidae appear in the Northern hemisphere: Taracus is only found in western North America and eastern Siberia. Sabacon occurs in southwestern Europe plus southern Wales, and temperate Asia, up to Japan, China and the Himalayan region.

Name

The name of the type genus is derived from "Sabacon", an Egyptian king.

Species

• Sabacon Simon, 1879

• Sabacon akiyoshiense Suzuki, 1963
• Sabacon altomontanum Martens, 1983 (France)
• Sabacon astoriensis Shear, 1975
• † Sabacon bachofeni Roewer, 1939 (fossil: Baltic amber)
• Sabacon briggsi Shear, 1975
• Sabacon bryantii (Banks, 1898) (Alaska)
• Sabacon cavicolens (Packard, 1884)
• Sabacon chomolongmae Martens, 1972
• Sabacon crassipalpe (L. Koch, 1879) (Siberia, North America)
• Sabacon dentipalpe Suzuki, 1949 (Japan)
• Sabacon dhaulagiri Martens, 1972
• Sabacon distinctum Suzuki, 1974
• Sabacon franzi Roewer, 1953
• Sabacon gonggashan Tsurusaki & Song, 1993 (Sichuan)
• Sabacon imamurai Suzuki, 1964
• Sabacon iriei Suzuki, 1974
• Sabacon ishizuchi Suzuki, 1974
• Sabacon jiriensis Martens, 1972
• Sabacon jonesi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 (Alabama)
• Sabacon makinoi Suzuki, 1949 (Japan)

• Sabacon makinoi makinoi Suzuki, 1949
• Sabacon makinoi sugimotoi Suzuki & Tsurusaki, 1983

• Sabacon martensi Tsurusaki & Song, 1993 (Sichuan)
• Sabacon mitchelli Crosby & Bishop, 1924 (North Carolina)
• Sabacon okadai Suzuki, 1941
• Sabacon palpogranulatum Martens, 1972
• Sabacon paradoxum Simon, 1879 (Pyrenees)
• Sabacon pasonianum Glez-Luque, 1991 (cave in Spain)
• Sabacon pectiginosa Simon, 1913 (Spain)
• Sabacon picosantrum Martens, 1983 (Spain)
• Sabacon pygmaeum Miyosi, 1942 (Japan)
• Sabacon relictum Marten, 1972
• Sabacon robusta Simon, 1873 (Spain)
• Sabacon satoikioi Miyosi, 1942
• Sabacon sergeidedicatum Martens, 1989 (Siberia)
• Sabacon sheari Cokendolpher, 1984 (Oregon)
• Sabacon simoni Dresco, 1952
• Sabacon siskiyou Shear, 1975
• Sabacon unicornis Martens, 1972
• Sabacon viscayanum Simon, 1881

• Sabacon viscayanum ramblaianum Martens, 1983 (France)
• Sabacon viscayanum viscayanum Simon, 1881

• Taracus Simon, 1879

• Taracus birsteini Ljovschkin, 1971 (Russia)
• Taracus gertschi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 (Oregon)
• Taracus malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 (California)
• Taracus nigripes Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 (Colorado)
• Taracus packardi Simon, 1879 (Colorado)
• Taracus pallipes Banks, 1894 (Washington)
• Taracus silvestrii Roewer, 1930 (cave in USA)
• Taracus spinosus Banks, 1894 (California)

References

• Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Sabaconidae
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9