Belongs within: Arachnida.
The Schizomida are a group of less than 200 species of minute soil-dwelling arachnids, with the majority of species found in rainforest leaf litter. Schizomids are generally less than 5 mm in length and have long, tactile anterior legs. The posterior flagellum is sexually dimorphic, being bulbous and unsegmented in the male and elongate and segmented in the female (Harvey 2002).
<==Schizomida [Schizopeltidia]
| i. s.: Schizomus Cook 1899 H02
| `--S. palaciosi Reddell & Cokendolpher 1986 A05
| Trithyreus Kraepelin 1899 H02
| |--T. cambridgei K14
| `--T. modestus K14
|--Calcitro Petrunkevitch 1945 [Calcitronidae] H02
| `--C. fisheri GE05
|--Protoschizomidae S07
| |--Protoschizomus S07
| `--Agastoschizomus H02
|--Schizonotoidae [Tartarides] T89
| |--Nyctalops crassicaudatus Cambridge 1872 T89, H02 (see below for synonymy)
| `--Tripeltis Thorell 1889 T89
| |--*T. grassii Thorell 1889 T89
| `--T. cambridgei Thorell 1889 T89
`--Hubbardiidae S07
|--Calcoschizomus Pierce 1951 H02
|--Onychothelyphonus Pierce 1950 H02
|--Megaschizomus [Megaschizominae] H02
|--Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin 1922 S07, GE02
`--Hubbardia [Hubbardiinae] GE02
`--H. pentapeltis Cook 1899 GE02
Nyctalops crassicaudatus Cambridge 1872 T89, H02 [incl. N. tenuicaudatus Cambridge 1872 H02, Schizonotus tenuicaudatus T89]
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[A05] Alberti, G. 2005. Double spermatogenesis in Chelicerata. Journal of Morphology 266 (3): 281-297.
[GE02] Giribet, G., G. D. Edgecombe, W. C. Wheeler & C. Babbitt. 2002. Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: A combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data. Cladistics 18: 5-70.
[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.
[H02] Harvey, M. S. 2002. The neglected cousins: What do we know about the smaller arachnid orders? Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 357-372.
[K14] Kraepelin, K. 1914. Die Skorpione und Pedipalpen von Neu-Caledonien und den benachbarten Inselgruppen. In Nova Caledonia: Forschungen in Neu-Caledonian und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. A. Zoologie vol. 1, Heft IV (F. Sarasin & J. Roux, eds) pp. 327-337. C. W. Kreidels Verlag: Wiesbaden.
[S07] Shultz, J. W. 2007. A phylogenetic analysis of the arachnid orders based on morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (2): 221-265.
[T89] Thorell, T. 1889. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. XXI. – Aracnidi Artrogastri Birmani raccolti da L. Fea nel 1885-1887. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2a 7: 521-729.
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