Miopsalis Thorell, 1890

Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), Zootaxa 3595 (1), pp. 1-34 : 28-30

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890: 381 ; Hansen and Sørensen 1904: 99; Roewer, 1923: 47 –48, fig. 50; Roewer, 1926: 263; Shear, 1979: 356 –357; Giribet 2000: 72 (as nomen dubium); Clouse & Giribet (in press) (validated).

Type species: Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890 , by monotypy.

Other species included: Miopsalis collinsi ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis globosa ( Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004) new comb., Miopsalis gryllospeca ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis kinabalu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis leakeyi ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis lionota ( Pocock, 1897) , Miopsalis mulu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis pocockii ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) new comb., Miopsalis sabah ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis silhavyi ( Rambla, 1991) , Miopsalis tarumpitao ( Shear, 1993) .

Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: anal gland pores usually present; chelicerae often with extensive granulations on the second article; Rambla’s organ sometimes present in large species; prosoma often relatively long; ventral prosomal complex usually large, with fourth coxae meeting for a length longer than the gonostome, distinct sternum present, and second coxae broadly meeting; body profile variable, but often flat in species of various sizes; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 often straight, parallel; posterior gonostome usually straight or weakly concave.

Distribution: Mostly Borneo and to a lesser extent Peninsula Malaysia, central Sumatra, and the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao.