Eupnoi, Hansen & Sorensen, 1904

Kury, Adriano Brilhante & Z. - Q, 2013, Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833, Zootaxa 3703 (1), pp. 27-33 : 27

Suborder Eupnoi

Descriptions of new Eupnoi have been scarce in the biennium, but in the last two years a few isolated new species from Central Asia (Chemeris 2012), China ( Zhang & Zhang 2012a), Turkey ( Snegovaya & Marusik 2012) were described. A little taxonomy of Nearctic was done ( Shultz 2012), and news are expected in Neopilionidae both Australasian and Neotropical (C. Taylor, pers. comm.; A. Tourinho, pers. comm.) but nothing from the hugely diverse Tropical Gagrellinae (with 1052 species, they correspond to 16% of all Opiliones , and their confuse taxonomy is a colossal challenge). Following also some updating of synonymies and better account of nomina dubia, the total of 1812 extant species of Eupnoi ( Kury 2011) has increased to 1822, or less than 1%.