Banksula melones (lat.) Is a species of arachnids from the family Phalangodidae of the order of hayfields . Endemic to caves at in California (USA). In the same caves are Banksula grahami .
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Body size is just a little over 2 mm. Being worried, the haymakers remain motionless for several minutes.
IUCN has assigned the Vulnerable Species (VU) conservation status to the taxon [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Banksula melones . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . (Retrieved February 19, 2019) .
Literature
- Briggs TS (1974). Phalangodidae from caves in the Sierra Nevada (California) with a redescription of the type genus (Opiliones: Phalangodidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 108 : 8.
- Elliott WR (1978). Final Report on the New Melones Cave Harvestman Transplant. Final Report on the New Melones Cave Harvestman Transplant .
- Rudolph DC (1979). Final report on the status of the Melones cave harvestman in the Stanislaus River drainage. Contract # 14-16-0009-79-009, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC
- Ubick D. & Briggs TS (2002). The harvestman family Phalangodidae 4. A review of the genus Banksula (Opiliones, Laniatores) . The Journal of Arachnology 30 : 435–451.
Links
- Shanks S. & Ubick D. Melones cave harvestman .