Spider They can be found by running a search for Harvestmen or Opiliones.
Harvestmen are arachnids belonging to the order OpilionesAlthough they belong to the class of arachnids, harvestmen are not spiders, which are of the order Araneae rather than the order Opiliones.
J. H. P. Sankey has written: 'British harvestmen' -- subject(s): Arachnida, Identification, Opiliones 'Provisional atlas of the harvest-spiders (Arachnida : Opiliones) of the British Isles' -- subject(s): Arachnida, Geographical distribution, Maps, Opiliones
Harvestmen are eight-legged invertebrate animals belonging to the order Opiliones in the class Arachnida in the phylum Arthropoda. Over 6,400 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide, although the real number of species may exceed 10,000.Although they belong to the class of arachnids, harvestmen are not spiders.In some places, harvestmen are known by the name Daddy Longlegs or Grandaddy Longlegs, but this name is also used for two other unrelated arthropods: the crane fly and the celler spider.See the Related Link.
There are there grand(daddy) long legs. A phoilcidae (cellar spider), a tipulidae (crane fly), and opiliones. The crane fly eats nectsr. The other two eats small insects. I have been told the opiliones are aphid eaters. The things I found just makes it seem like they would it it was there. Not an aphid only diet though.
Jochen Martens has written: 'Weberknechte, Opiliones' -- subject(s): Arachnida, Opiliones
Maria Rambla has written: 'Opiliones (Arachnida)' -- subject(s): Arachnida, Opiliones
The way things are divided, spiders and harvestmen both belong to the "Class" called Arachnida, but they belong to different "Orders" on the next level. And in between the Order called Opiliones and the various species of harvestmen, there are divisions into "Suborder," "Superfamily," and "Family." Only then do you get to the level of Genus. There might be hundreds of Genera and some people say there are probably as many as 10,000 different species of these harmless little creatures.
Class Arachnida (arachnids) Order Acari Order Amblypigi (amblypygids) Order Araneae (spiders) Order Opiliones (daddy longlegs and harvestmen) Order Palpigradi (microscorpions) Order Pseudoscorpionida (book scorpions, false scorpions, & pseudoscorpions) Order Ricinulei Order Scorpiones (scorpions) Order Solpugida (solpugids and sun spiders) Order Uropygi (uropygids)
Arachnids, being spiders, scorpions, harvestmen etc.
harvestmen, scorpions, spiders, mites, ticks, and octopuses
is the scientific study of spiders and related organisms such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, collectively called arachnids