Halitherses grimaldii Giribet and Dunlop 2005 (harvestman)

Arachnida - Opiliones - Halithersidae

Full reference: G. Giribet and J. A. Dunlop. 2005. First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272:1007-1013

Belongs to Halitherses according to C. Bartel and J. A. Dunlop 2023

See also Dunlop et al. 2016 and Giribet and Dunlop 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-1583, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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