GONYLEPTOIDEA SUNDEVALL, 1833

Kury, Adriano B. & M., Osvaldo Villarreal, 2015, The prickly blade mapped: establishing homologies and a chaetotaxy for macrosetae of penis ventral plate in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 174 (1), pp. 1-46 : 30

SUPERFAMILY GONYLEPTOIDEA SUNDEVALL, 1833

Diagnosis: Distitarsus of leg I with 3 articles (with secondary regressions to 2 articles in some species). Tarsal aggregate pores widespread (uninvestigated in many species). A distinct setigerous plate recognizable (except in Stygnopsidae ) either as a set malleus + lamina parva or as a ventral plate. Glans as a haematodocha free on apical truncus (except on Stygnopsidae ). Pattern A–E of macrosetae recognizable on penis. MS C forming a longitudinal row on latero-distal region of penis (except in Stygnidae ).

Subtaxa included: Agoristenidae , Cryptogeobiidae , Gerdesiidae, Laminata , Stygnopsidae , Stygnidae .