Opilio is a genus of harvestmen with 35 known species.

Name

The genus name is derived from Latin opilio "sheep-master" (a kind of slave), used by Plautus, also used by Virgil with the meaning "shepherd".

Species

Opilio contains the following thirty-five species:

• Opilio afghanus Roewer, 1960

• Opilio apsheronicus Snegovaya, 2005

• Opilio arborphilus Snegovaya, 2010

• Opilio canestrinii (Thorell, 1876)

• Opilio caucasicus Snegovaya, 2010

• Opilio coxipunctus (Sørensen, 1911)

• Opilio decoratus Koch, 1878

• Opilio dinaricus Šilhavý, 1938

• Opilio ejuncidus (Thorell, 1876)

• Opilio grasshoffi Staręga, 1986

• Opilio hemseni Roewer, 1952

• Opilio himalincola Martens, 1973

• Opilio insulae Roewer, 1956

• Opilio kakunini Snegovaya, Cokendolpher & Mozaffarian, 2018

• Opilio lederi Roewer, 1911

• Opilio lepidus Koch, 1879

• Opilio magnus Hadži, 1973

• Opilio minutus Meade, 1855

• Opilio morini Snegovaya, 2016

• Opilio nabozhenkoi Snegovaya, 2010

• †Opilio ovalis Berendt & Koch, 1854

• Opilio parietinus (De Geer, 1778)

• Opilio putnik Karaman, 1999

• Opilio ravennae Spoek, 1962

• Opilio rossicus Snegovaya, 2016

• Opilio rutilus Morin, 1934

• Opilio ruzickai Šilhavý, 1938

• Opilio saxatilis Koch, 1839

• Opilio setipenis Snegovaya, 2008

• Opilio shirvanicus Snegovaya, 2005

• Opilio silhavyi Kratochvíl, 1936

• Opilio silvestris Snegovaya, 2010

• Opilio transversalis Roewer, 1956

• Opilio trispinifrons Roewer, 1911

• Opilio validus Roewer, 1959

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