Pregled faune kosaca (Arachnida: Opiliones) u Hrvatskoj
Authors: T. Novak
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Abstract
Crit i cal re view of the lit er a ture on harvestmen from Croatia was made, and data from ma jor col lec tions of harvestmen in Croatia are listed to pro vide an over view of re cent knowl edge on t h e topic. Where needed com ments and/or cor rec tions have been added to avoid fur ther con fu sion. Al to gether, 64 valid spe cies and one sub spe cies have been firmly iden ti fied in Croatia. Two fur ther spe cies are un doubt edly pres ent al though not yet re corded, bring ing the to tal num ber of opilionid spe cies to 66 plus one sub spe cies. Po ten tially, up to 9–11 fur ther spe cies in habit the coun try, and the dis cov ery of fur ther new spe cies can not be ex cluded. Tax o nom i cal re vi sions are re q uired in some taxa. Ac cord ing to pres ent knowl edge, the harvestman fauna of Croatia is among the rich es t ones in the Bal kans.
Keywords
arach nids, bib li og ra phy, Opiliones, Croatia