Revised checklist of Nordic harvestmen (Opiliones) with five species new to Norway

We present a revised checklist of harvestmen (Opiliones) covering all the Nordic countries, including Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Altogether 31 species from 18 genera and four families are currently known, of which 23 are from Norway, 21 from Sweden, 17 from Finland, 25 from Denmark, five from th...

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Published in:Arachnologische Mitteilungen
Main Authors: Bezděčka, Pavel, Bezděčková, Klára, Kvamme, Torstein
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:German
English
Published: Arachnologische Gesellschaft (ARAGES) 2017
Subjects:
first records
Nordic countries
Phalangiidae
Scandinavia
Sclerosomatidae
Zoology
QL1-991
Faroe Islands
Meade
Norway
Iceland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5431/aramit5413
https://doaj.org/article/7219047172c847859e44aab4fe3e492c
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Summary:We present a revised checklist of harvestmen (Opiliones) covering all the Nordic countries, including Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Altogether 31 species from 18 genera and four families are currently known, of which 23 are from Norway, 21 from Sweden, 17 from Finland, 25 from Denmark, five from the Faroe Islands and four from Iceland. Five species are documented for the first time in Norway: Lacinius dentiger (C. L. Koch, 1847), Lacinius horridus (Panzer, 1794), Opilio saxatilis C. L. Koch, 1839, Leiobunum blackwalli Meade, 1861 and Leiobunum limbatum L. Koch, 1861.

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