Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882

Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), Zootaxa 3595 (1), pp. 1-34 : 25-26

Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882

Leptopsalis Thorell, 1882: 23 –24 ; Karsch 1884: 145; Thorell 1890: 106 (as junior synonym of Stylocellus Westwood, 1874 ); Giribet 2000: 68 (as junior synonym of Stylocellus Westwood, 1874 ); Clouse and Giribet (in press) (restored).

Type species: Leptopsalis beccarii Thorell, 1882 , by monotypy.

Other species included: Leptopsalis dumoga ( Shear, 1993) , Leptopsalis hillyardi ( Shear, 1993) , Leptopsalis javana ( Thorell, 1882) , Leptopsalis laevichelis ( Roewer, 1942) new comb., Leptopsalis lydekkeri ( Clouse & Giribet, 2007) , Leptopsalis modesta ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) , Leptopsalis novaguinea ( Clouse & Giribet, 2007) , Leptopsalis pangrango ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Leptopsalis ramblae ( Giribet, 2002) , Leptopsalis sedgwicki ( Shear, 1979) new comb., Leptopsalis sulcata ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) , Leptopsalis tambusisi ( Shear, 1993) , Leptopsalis thorellii ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) , Leptopsalis weberii ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904)

Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: eyes distinct and often large; anal gland pores almost always absent; granulations on second cheliceral article usually highly reduced; Rambla’s organ absent; prosoma almost always compact, not elongate; ventral prosomal complex usually highly compressed; sternum usually indistinct; body profile usually deep, dorsal scutum usually arched; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 usually curved, anterior medial sulci often indistinct; posterior gonostome often deeply concave.

Distribution: Central Thailand and south down the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, western New Guinea, and, to a small extent Borneo.