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Opilio

Opilio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Eupnoi
Family: Phalangiidae
Subfamily: Opilioninae
Genus: Opilio
Herbst, 1798
Type species
Opilio silhavyi
Kratochvíl, 1936
Species

Opilio canestrinii
Opilio parietinus

others, see text
Diversity
63 species

Opilio canestrinii
Opilio parietinus

Opilio is a genus of harvestmen with more than sixty known recent species.

The genus name is derived from Latin opilio "sheep-master" (a kind of slave), used by Plautus, also used by Virgil with the meaning "shepherd".


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