Gonyleptoidea is the most diverse superfamily of the Grassatores. It includes around 2,500 species distributed in the Neotropics. They are characterized by the simplified male genitalia, with the glans free subapical in the truncus.
Gonyleptoidea is the only group of harvestmen to show maternal care of offspring.
Families Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973 Ampycidae Kury, 2003 Askawachidae Kury & Carvalho, 2020 Cosmetidae Koch, 1839 Cranaidae Roewer, 1913 Cryptogeobiiidae Kury, 2014 Gerdesiidae Bragagnolo, Hara & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2015 Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833 Manaosbiidae Roewer, 1943 Metasarcidae Kury, 1994 Nomoclastidae Roewer, 1943 Otilioleptidae Acosta, 2019 Prostygnidae Roewer, 1913 Stygnidae Simon, 1879 Stygnopsidae Sørensen, 1932
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