The Manaosbiidae are a family of neotropical harvestmen within the suborder Laniatores.
Name The name of the type genus is combined from Manaus and Ancient Greek bios "living". (2007): Manaosbiidae. Roewer, 1943. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 210ff
Description Body length ranges from about three to ten millimeters. Most species are dark brown with black mottling. Appendages are in general much lighter, often with dark rings.
Distribution The Manaosbiidae occur south from Panama, with a southern limit in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil). They inhabit lowland Amazonian rainforest up to submontane Andean forests, dry forests in Central America, and riparian forests in Brazil.
Relationships The relationship of Manaosbiidae with other families within the Gonyleptoidea is unclear.
Species
Manaosbiinae
Azulamus Roewer, 1957 Azulamus scabrissimus Roewer, 1957 – Peru Barrona Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 Barrona williamsi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 – Panama Belemnodes Strand, 1942 Belemnodes scaber (Roewer, 1932) Belemulus Roewer, 1932 Belemulus annulatus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil Bugabitia Roewer, 1915 Bugabitia triacantha Roewer, 1915 – Panama Camelianus Roewer, 1912 Camelianus fuhrmanni Roewer, 1912 – Colombia Clavicranaus Roewer, 1915 Clavicranaus tarsalis Roewer, 1915 – Suriname, Brazil Cucutacola Mello-Leitão, 1940 Cucutacola nigra Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Colombia Dibunostra Roewer, 1943 Dibunostra ypsilon Roewer, 1943 – Venezuela Gonogotus Roewer, 1943 Gonogotus areolatus Roewer, 1943 – Colombia Manaosbia Roewer, 1943 Manaosbia scopulata Roewer, 1943 – Brazil Mazarunius Roewer, 1943 Mazarunius oedipus Roewer, 1943 – Guyana Meridia Roewer, 1913 Meridia palpalis Roewer, 1913 – Venezuela Meridia gracilis (Roewer, 1913) – Suriname Narcellus Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2011 Narcellus balthazar (Roewer, 1932) – Windward Islands Narcellus montgomeryi (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) – Trinidad Paramicrocranaus H. Soares, 1970 Paramicrocranaus difficilis H. Soares, 1970 – Brazil Pentacranaus Roewer, 1963 Pentacranaus niger Roewer, 1963 – Peru Poassa Roewer, 1943 Poassa limbata Roewer, 1943 – Costa Rica Poecilocranaus Roewer, 1943 Poecilocranaus gratiosus Roewer, 1943 – Venezuela Rhopalocranaus Roewer, 1913 Rhopalocranaus albilineatus Roewer, 1932 – Trinidad Rhopalocranaus apiculatus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil Rhopalocranaus aspersus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil Rhopalocranaus atroluteus Roewer, 1913 – Colombia Rhopalocranaus bordoni Silhavy, 1979 – Venezuela Rhopalocranaus crulsi Mello-Leitão, 1932 Rhopalocranaus festae Roewer, 1925 – Ecuador Rhopalocranaus gracilis Roewer, 1913 – Venezuela Rhopalocranaus limbatus (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela Rhopalocranaus marginatus Roewer, 1913 – French Guiana, Brazil Rhopalocranaus robustus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Guyana Rhopalocranaus tenuis (Roewer, 1943) – Suriname Rhopalocranaus tuberculatus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 – Guyana Rhopalocranaus ypsilon Roewer, 1913 – Colombia Rhopalocranellus Roewer, 1925 Rhopalocranellus festae Roewer, 1925 – Ecuador Sanvincentia Roewer, 1943 Sanvincentia tarsalis Roewer, 1943 – Virgin Islands, St. Vincent Saramacia Roewer, 1913 Saramacia alvarengai Kury, 1997 – Brazil Saramacia annulata (Mello-Leitão, 1931) – Brazil Saramacia aurilimbata Roewer, 1913 – Suriname Saramacia lucasae (R. d. L. S. Jim & H. E. M. Soares, 1991) – Brazil Semostrus Roewer, 1943 Semostrus tarsalis Roewer, 1943 – Colombia Syncranaus Roewer, 1913 Syncranaus cribrum Roewer, 1913 – Brazil Tegyra Sørensen, 1932 Tegyra cinnamomea Sørensen, 1932 – Peru Zygopachylus Chamberlin, 1925 Zygopachylus albomarginis Chamberlin, 1925 – Panama unknown genus unknown genus calcar (Roewer, 1943) – Venezuela unknown genus albituberculatus (Roewer, 1943) – Guyana unknown genus strinatii (V. Silhavy, 1979) – Venezuela
Footnotes
References Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Manaosbiidae (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press