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Opiliones

 

(also Phalangida), an order of arthropods of the class Arachnida. The body length is 1–22 mm. The animals resemble spiders, but unlike the latter, they have a segmented abdomen joined to the prosoma by a broad base. The first pair of oral extremities are chelate chelicerae that lack poison glands; the pedipalps are short. The walking legs are very long and slender and may be easily torn off. Breathing is by means of tracheae. Of the more than 2,400 species, 72 are found in the USSR. The arthropods live on the forest floor, under the bark of trees; they are often found on fences and various other structures. The animals are nocturnal predators.

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Two new species of Opiliones from Southern Siberia and Mongolia, with an establishment of a new genus and redefinition of the genus Homolophus (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangiidae).
New record of the genus Homolophus (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) in Turkey and SEM studies on its morphology
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Ensambles estacionales de artropodos epigeos en un bosque de quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) en el Chaco Humedo
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Llama la atencion la positividad encontrada en los adultos del orden Polydesmida, familia Rhacodesmidae y del orden Opiliones.
Concentracion natural de compuestos antimalaricos en artropodos tropicales (in vitro)
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Abstracts of papers presented at the 2007 meeting of the Tennessee Academy Of Science
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While maternal egg guarding is widespread among arachnids, exclusive paternal care is present only in the order Opiliones (Machado et al.
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