Isolachus

Briggs, 1971

Isolachus is a of armoured in the Cladonychiidae, containing a single described , I. spinosus. The genus was established by Briggs in 1971 and is known from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. As a member of the suborder Laniatores, it belongs to a diverse group of short-legged harvestmen characterized by heavily sclerotized body armor.

Isolachus spinosus (10.3897-zookeys.760.24937) Figure 1 (cropped) by (photo by MH) Derkarabetian S, Starrett J, Tsurusaki N, Ubick D, Castillo S, Hedin M (2018) A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements. ZooKeys 760: 1-36. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24937. Used under a CC BY 4.0 license.Isolachus spinosus 08 by Shahan Derkarabetian, James Starrett, Nobuo Tsurusaki, Darrell Ubick, Stephanie Castillo, Marshal Hedin. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.Laniatores (10.3897-zookeys.760.24937) Figure 1 by All photos by MH, except D, E (courtesy of and copyright A. Schönhofer), and F (courtesy of and copyright I. Karaman) Derkarabetian S, Starrett J, Tsurusaki N, Ubick D, Castillo S, Hedin M (2018) A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements. ZooKeys 760: 1-36. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24937. Used under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Distribution

Oregon and Washington, United States

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Taxonomic history

The was described by Briggs in 1971. It is currently classified within the Cladonychiidae, superfamily Travunioidea.

Species diversity

Only one has been formally described: Isolachus spinosus. The remains .

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