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Dicranopalpus

Dicranopalpus
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Summary

Dicranopalpus is a genus of harvestmen with twelve known recent species. Three fossil species have been described, all from Baltic amber, but only D. ramiger is currently considered valid.

Dicranopalpus

Dicranopalpus
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Scientific classification

kingdom: Animalia
phylum: Arthropoda
class: Arachnida
order: Opiliones
family: Phalangiidae

Species

Dicranopalpus ramosus

Fork-palped Harvestman

Dicranopalpus ramosus

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Name

The genus name refers to the peculiar form of the palps in at least the first described species, D. gasteinensis (and D. ramosus), derived from di "two", cranium "head", and palpus.

Further reading

- Starȩga, W. (2002): Baltic amber harvestmen (Opiliones) from Polish collections. Annales zoologici 52(4): 601-604.