Agoristenidae are a neotropical harvestman family of the Suborder Laniatores, in the superfamily Gonyleptoidea.
Name The name of the type genus is a combination of Ancient Greek agora "gathering" and stenos "few", referring to the rarity of the family at the time of its discovery. (2007): Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 171ff
Description These harvestmen range in body length from two to about five millimeters. Their coloring ranges from yellowish to dark brown. Some show yellow stripes or white or green patches.
Distribution The subfamily Agoristeninae is endemic to the Greater Antilles. The other subfamilies have been found from northern South America.
Relationships In older schemes, the now obsolete "Zamorinae" were the basal clade, with Agoristeninae and Leiosteninae as sister groups. Agoristeninae is sister group to all Gonyleptoidea except Stygnopsidae.
(after Kury 1997b, 1997c)
Species
Agoristeninae
Agoristenus Silhavy, 1973 Agoristenus cubanus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba Agoristenus haitensis Silhavy, 1973 — Haiti Ahotta Silhavy, 1973 Ahotta hispaniolica Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola Calmotrinus Silhavy, 1973 Calmotrinus turquinensis Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba Dumitrescuella Avram, 1977 Dumitrescuella ornata Avram, 1977 — Cuba Haitimera Silhavy, 1973 Haitimera paeninsularis Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola Lichirtes Silhavy, 1973 Lichirtes hexapodoides Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba Meriosfera Silhavy, 1973 Meriosfera gertschi Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola Meriosfera lineata Silhavy, 1973 — Hispaniola Orghidaniella Avram, 1977 Orghidaniella granpiedrae Avram, 1977 — Cuba Piratrinus Silhavy, 1973 Piratrinus calcaratus Silhavy, 1973 — Cuba Torreana Avram, 1977 Torreana poeyi Avram, 1977 — Cuba Torreana spinata Avram, 1977 — Cuba Vampyrostenus Silhavy, 1976 Vampyrostenus kratochvili Silhavy, 1976 — Puerto Rico Yunquenus Silhavy, 1973 Yunquenus portoricanus Silhavy, 1973 — Puerto Rico
Globibuninae
Globibunus Roewer, 1912 Globibunus rubrofemoratus Roewer, 1912 — Ecuador Rivetinus Roewer, 1914 Rivetinus minutus Roewer, 1914 — Ecuador Rivetinus vulcanus Kury, 1997 — Ecuador Sabanilla Roewer, 1913 Sabanilla ornata Roewer, 1913 — Venezuela [Colombia?, Ecuador?]
Leiosteninae
Andrescava Roewer, 1957 Andrescava sturmi Roewer, 1963 — Colombia Andrescava weyrauchi Roewer, 1957 — Peru Avima Roewer, 1949 [Contra preoccupied Trinella (!After Hallan)]. Avima albidecorata (Silhavy, 1979) — Venezuela Avima albimaculata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela Avima albiornata (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago Avima anitas Porto & Colmenares, 2014 — Brazil (!After Hallan) Avima azulitai (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela Avima bicoloripes Roewer, 1949 — Brazil Avima bordoni (Muñoz-Cuevas, 1975) — Venezuela Avima bubonica (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima chapmani (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela Avima checkeleyi (Rambla, 1978) — Venezuela Avima chiguaraensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima falconensis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima flavomaculata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima glabrata (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela Avima granulosa (González-Sponga, 1998) — Venezuela [Caution, later misspelling as "Avima granulata" in some publications) Avima intermedia (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) — Trinidad & Tobago Avima matintaperera (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil Avima naranjoi (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela Avima octomaculata (Roewer, 1963) — Peru Avima olmosa Roewer, 1956 — Peru Avima palpogranulosa (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela Avima quadrata (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima scabra (Roewer, 1963) — Colombia Avima severa (Soares & Avram, 1981) — Venezuela Avima soaresorum (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1996) — Brazil Avima subparamera (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Avima troglobia Rocha, 1996 — Venezuela Avima tuttifrutti García & Pastrana-Montiel, 2021 — Colombia Avima venezuelica Soares & Avram, 1981 — Venezuela Avima wayuunaiki García, González Vargas & Gutiérrez Estrada, 2022 — Colombia Barinas González-Sponga, 1987 Barinas flava González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Barinas guanenta García & Ahumada-C., 2022 — Colombia Barinas piragua Ahumada-C. & García, 2020 — Colombia Barinas virginis (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Barlovento González-Sponga, 1987 Barlovento albapatella González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Barlovento littorei González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Barlovento marmoratus (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela [!Note: Altered suffix] Barlovento salmeronensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Leptostygnus Mello-Leitão, 1940 Leptostygnus leptochirus Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Colombia Leptostygnus marchantiarum (González-Sponga, 1987) — Venezuela Leptostygnus yarigui García & Villarreal, 2020 — Colombia Muscopilio Villarreal & García, 2021 Muscopilio onod Villarreal & García, 2021 — Colombia Nemastygnus Roewer, 1929 Nemastygnus ovalis Roewer, 1929 — Colombia Ocoita González-Sponga, 1987 Ocoita mina González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Ocoita tapipensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela (= syn. Ocoita servae González-Sponga, 1987) Paravima Caporiacco, 1951 Paravima goodnightorum Caporiacco, 1951 — Venezuela (= syn. Paravima flumencaurimarensis González-Sponga, 1987) Paravima locumida González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Paravima lokura García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia Paravima magistri García & Villarreal, 2023 — Colombia Paravima morritomacairensis González-Sponga, 1987 — Venezuela Paravima plana (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1949) — Venezuela Paravima propespelunca González-Sponga, 1987 (= syn. Paravima acanthoconus Villarreal & DoNascimiento, 2005) Paravima quirozi (González-Sponga, 1981) — Venezuela Paravima totoro García & Villarreal, 2023 — Venezuela Taulisa Roewer, 1956 Taulisa koepckei Roewer, 1956 — Peru Vima Hirst, 1912 Vima insignis Hirst, 1912 — Guyana [? Brazil]
Agoristenidae Insertae sedis Micrisaeus Roewer, 1957 Micrisaeus gracillimus Roewer, 1957 — Peru
Excluded from Agoristenidae, now placed elsewhere: For Palcabius Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis Palcabius palpalis Roewer, 1956 — Peru For Ramonus Roewer, 1956, see Gonyleptoidea Insertae sedis Ramonus conifrons Roewer, 1956 — Peru For Zamora Roewer, 1927, see Nomoclastidae
References
Further reading (1997b): A new subfamily of Agoristenidae, with comments on suprageneric relationships of the family (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores). Trop. Zool. 10: 333-346. (1997c): Os Stygnopsidae na filogenia de Gonyleptoidea, com comentários sobre a biogeografia da superfamilia. P. 30 in Actas del Primer Encuentro de Aracnólogos del Cono Sur. Montevideo, Uruguay. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press (2010) : New familial assignments for three species of Neotropical harvestmen based on cladistic analysis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa, 2241: 33–46.
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