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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Laniatores |
| Infraorder: | Grassatores |
| Superfamily: | Samooidea |
| Genus: | Neoscotolemon Roewer, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Scotolemon pictipes Banks, 1908 | |
| Diversity | |
| 7 spp. (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Neoscotolemon is a genus of harvestmen in the superfamily Samooidea with seven described species (as of January 2025). All species are found in the Greater Antilles and United States of America in Florida. An overview of the taxonomy was provided by Pérez-González et al. (2025).
Description
The genus Neoscotolemon was described by Roewer, with the type species Scotolemon pictipes Banks, 1908.
Species
These species belong to the genus Neoscotolemon:
- Neoscotolemon armasi Pérez-González, Mamani & Proud, 2025 – Cuba
- Neoscotolemon bolivari (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945) – Cuba
- Neoscotolemon cotilla (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945) – Cuba
- Neoscotolemon pictipes (Banks, 1908) – Cuba
- Neoscotolemon spinifer (Packard, 1888) – USA (Florida), (plus dubious records from Cayman Islands and Jamaica)
- Neoscotolemon tancahensis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1951) – Mexico (Yucatán), Belize
- Neoscotolemon vojtechi (Šilhavý, 1979) – Cuba
(Neoscotolemon luzi = Metapellobunus lutzi)
Etymology
The genus is masculine.
References
- ^ "Neoscotolemon". Kury et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- "Neoscotolemon Roewer, 1912". Catalogue of Life.
- "Neoscotolemon". iNaturalist. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- Pérez-González, Abel; Mamani, Vanesa; Proud, Daniel N. (2025). "On the genus Neoscotolemon (Opiliones: Laniatores: Samooidea incertae sedis) with the description of one new species". Zootaxa. 5563 (1): 109–165. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.11.
- Roewer, Carl F. (1912). "Die Familien der Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren)". Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg. 19 (4): 1–294.
Further reading
- Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007). Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, USA. ISBN 0-674-02343-9
External links
Media related to Neoscotolemon at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Neoscotolemon at Wikispecies
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