The Travuniidae are a small family of harvestman with little more than ten described species, within the suborder Laniatores.
Description Travuniidae are at the most three millimeters long, with slender, unarmed legs and robust, strongly spined pedipalps. (2007): Travuniidae Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 237ff
Distribution Travuniidae have been found in Europe, Japan and the United States. Although some were described from Slovenia, these records proved to be erroneous.
Relationships Travuniidae are most closely related to Cladonychiidae; it is even possible that Travuniidae is paraphyletic in respect to this family.
Name The name of the type genus is derived from the Latin name of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Species
Peltonychiinae
Peltonychia Roewer, 1935 Peltonychia leprieurii (Lucas, 1860) — Buco Dell'Orso (cave, northern Italy) Peltonychia posteumicola (Roewer, 1935) Peltonychia gabria Roewer, 1935 Peltonychia tenuis Roewer, 1935
Travuniinae
Abasola Strand, 1928 Abasola troglodytes (Roewer, 1915) — Dalmatia Abasola sarea Roewer, 1935 — Pyrenees Abasola hofferi Silhavy, 1937 — Yugoslavia
Arbasus Roewer, 1935 Arbasus caecus (Simon, 1911) — southern France
Dinaria Hadzi, 1932 — palearctic Kratochvíliola Roewer, 1935 — palearctic Kratochvíliola navarica Roewer, 1935
Speleonychia Briggs, 1974 Speleonychia sengeri Briggs, 1974 — Washington
Travunia Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932 Travunia jandai Kratochvíl, 1938 — Yugoslavia
incertae sedis
Yuria Suzuki, 1964 — Japan Yuria pulcra Suzuki, 1964 Yuria pulcra pulcra Suzuki, 1964 Yuria pulcra briggsi Suzuki, 1975
Buemarinoa Roewer, 1956 Buemarinoa patrizii Roewer, 1956 — Sardinia
Footnotes
References 's Biology Catalog: Travuniidae (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press