Travuniidae
Crypto master leviathan
The Travuniidae are a family of harvestmen ( Opiliones ) with uncertain disjunktem paläarktischem distribution area, focus on southern Europe. The representatives are very small ( 1-5 mm) and have no armored legs, but pedipalps pronounced with strong spines. As usual for the subordination of Laniatores represent the pedipalps at the same time catching legs up, with which they catch their prey. In Central Europe it is represented with only one type, namely Peltonychia leprieuri (Lucas, 1860), which was proved by Martens in Switzerland in 1978. About ten species were found in the karst of the Northern Balkans and in the Southern Alps and in the Pyrenees. Most of them live epigeal ( in the litter layer of the soil ), but in the Pyrenees and in the karst are also locally troglobionte ( inhabiting caves ) species. Many of the finds have been made in mountains, and in Switzerland, she was found at an altitude of 1,400 m. Worldwide, about 13 species have been described.
Species of the family
- Peltonychiinae Kratochvil, Balat & Pelikan, 1958 Peltonychia Roewer, 1935 Peltonychia leprieurii (Lucas, 1860)
- Peltonychia posteumicola ( Roewer, 1935)
- Peltonychia Gabria Roewer, 1935
- Peltonychia tenuis Roewer, 1935
- Abasola beach, 1928 Abasola troglodytes ( Roewer, 1915)
- Abasola Sarea Roewer, 1935
- Abasola hofferi Silhavy, 1937
- Arbasus Roewer, 1935
- Arbasus caecus (Simon, 1911)
- Kratochvíliola navarica Roewer, 1935
- Speleonychia sengeri Briggs, 1974
- Travunia jandai Kratochvil, 1938
- Yuria Suzuki, 1964 Yuria Pulcra Suzuki, 1964 Yuria Pulcra Pulcra Suzuki, 1964
- Yuria Pulcra briggsi Suzuki, 1975
- Buemarinoa Roewer, 1956 Buemarinoa patrizii Roewer, 1956