Cyphophthalmi is a suborder of harvestmen, colloquially known as mite harvestmen. Cyphophthalmi comprises 36 genera, and more than two hundred described...

species may exceed 10,000. The order Opiliones includes five suborders: Cyphophthalmi, Eupnoi, Dyspnoi, Laniatores, and Tetrophthalmi, which were named in...

Opiliones split into the Phalangida and stem Cyphophthalmi. The Cyphophthalmi stem then diversified into Cyphophthalmi proper and the newly identified Tetrophthalmi...

This page lists all described species of the harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi. Unless otherwise noted, information is taken from Giribet's 2000 taxonomic...

is considered most effective in the suborders Cyphophthalmi and Laniatores. In the suborder Cyphophthalmi, the ozopores are located on special ozophores...

of the prosoma there are defensive glands called ozopores, which in Cyphophthalmi open on the tip of an elevated cone called the ozophore. The prosomal...

is the ancestral condition for harvestmen, placing Tetrophthalmi and Cyphophthalmi in a basal position within Opiliones. In 2024, a study discovered that...

Parsimony analysis suggests it could be a sister group to the remaining Cyphophthalmi, though this could also be the case for the Stylocellidae, or it could...

minor (Juberthie, 1958) – France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia) List of Cyphophthalmi species#Boreophthalmi Kury, A. (2024). "Parasironidae". WCO-Lite 2.6:...

the penis is operated by haemolymph pressure. In some members of the Cyphophthalmi, the structure has been termed a "spermatopositor". This denomination...