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Field Notes

Description:

Harvestmen.
Compact white body with a pair of eyes in the middle of the cephalothorax and 8 long legs.

Habitat:

Spotted at Central Park, New York.
Representatives of each extant suborder can be found on all continents except Antarctica.

Notes:

Known as harvestmen, harvesters or daddy longlegs. As of April 2017, over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Opiliones Suborder: Eupnoi Superfamily: Phalangioidea Family: Sclerosomatidae Genus: Pseudosystenocentrus

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PublishedJune 6, 2020

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