Caddidae
Sign in to saveCaddoidea superfamily of harvestmen arachnids with a single family Caddidae, which now only contains 2 extant species. The family previously contained many more taxa under a previous wider concept, but the familial definition was narrowed after restudy.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Caddidae
- Collections
- WAM, AM
- Recorded in
- Japan, Australia
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Caddoidea superfamily of harvestmen arachnids with a single family Caddidae, which now only contains 2 extant species. The family previously contained many more taxa under a previous wider concept, but the familial definition was narrowed after restudy.
They are part of the suborder Eupnoi. They have mostly a body length between one and three millimeters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caddidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.