Sclerobunus cavicolus

Familia: Paranonychidae
Genus: Sclerobunus
Species:

Sclerobunus cavicolus (Banks, 1905). [Elsewhere as Sclerobunus cavicolens in later incorrect subsequent spelling of epithet]

Type locality: USA, Montana, Lewis and Clark Caverns, formerly Morrison Cave (originally stated as "a cave near Limespur").

Typus: Holotype ♂ MCZ.

• Cyptobunus cavicolus Banks, 1905: 252, figs. 1-2. Protonym. Later repeated Roewer, 1915: 62 & 167; Roewer, 1923: 631; Roewer, 1931: 153 (as = Sclerobunus robustus [part]).
• Sclerobunus cavicolus (Banks, 1905); Crosby & Bishop 1924: 104. Comb. nov.
• Cyptobunus cavicolens Banks, 1905 [sic, incorrect subsequent spelling]; Briggs 1971: 4, figs 1–9; Edgar 1990: 540: Kury 2003: 18.
• Sclerobunus cavicolens (Banks, 1905) [sic, incorrect subsequent spelling]; Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943: 646, figs. 8-9; Goodnight & Goodnight, 1960: 37; Derkarabetian & Hedin, 2014: 12, plus figures.

• Banks, N. 1905. A new genus and species of Phalangida. Entomological News 16(8): 251–253. BHL Reference page. 

• Briggs, T.S. 1971. The harvestmen of family Triaenonychidae in North America (Opiliones). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 90: 1–43. Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1915b. Die Familie der Triaenonychidae der Opiliones - Laniatores. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 80(12): 61–168. BHL Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1923. Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1116 pp. Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1931d. Über Triaenonychiden (6. Ergänzung der "Weberknechte der Erde", 1923). Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig, 138(1): 137–185. Reference page. 
• Crosby, C.R. & Bishop, S.C. 1924. The genus Cyptobunus Banks (Phalangida). Entomological News 35(3): 104. Reference page. 
• Edgar, A.L. 1990. Opiliones (Phalangida). In D.L. Dindal (Ed.). Soil biology guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester. pp. 529–581.
• Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L. 1943. New and little known phalangids from the United States. The American Midland Naturalist 29(3): 643–656. Reference page. 
• Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L 1960. Speciation among cave opilionids of the United States. American Midland Naturalist 64(1): 34–38. Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 1-337. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin. M. 2014. Integrative taxonomy and species delimitation in harvestmen: A revision of the western North American genus Sclerobunus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Travunioidea). PLoS One 9(8): 1–25 (e104982). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104982. . Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on October 1, 2024]

• BHL bibliography
• Sclerobunus cavicolus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Sclerobunus cavicolus.
• ION

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