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Class Arachnida (Harvestmen, Ticks and Mites)

Order Opiliones: Harvestmen Harvestmen, often known as “daddy longlegs,” are common throughout the world and comprise about 5000 species. They are easily distinguished from spiders: their abdomen and cephalothorax are rounded and broadly joined, without the constriction of a pedicel; their abdomen shows external segmentation; and they have only two …

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