MATERNAL OR PATERNAL EGG GUARDING? REVISITING PARENTAL CARE IN TRIAENONYCHID HARVESTMEN (OPILIONES)

Glauco Machado

doi:10.1636/SH06-14.1

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Glauco Machadohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0321-128X¹

¹Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, n° 321, Cidade Universitária, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. glaucom@ib.usp.br

Abstract

Based on a photo published in a book on New Zealand arachnids, I propose here that the cases of maternal care described by Forster in 1954 should be considered as paternal care. Maternal care is therefore restricted to the superfamily Gonyleptoidea, while paternal care has evolved in five phylogenetically independent lineages of Opiliones, including representatives of the superfamilies Travunioidea, Epedanoidea, and Gonyleptoidea.

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Glauco Machado "MATERNAL OR PATERNAL EGG GUARDING? REVISITING PARENTAL CARE IN TRIAENONYCHID HARVESTMEN (OPILIONES)," The Journal of Arachnology 35(1), 202-204, (1 April 2007). https://doi.org/10.1636/SH06-14.1

Received: 26 March 2006; Published: 1 April 2007

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