Caddo Banks, 1892

Prokopenko, Е. V. & Sergeev, М. Е., 2020, On northwestern distribution of the family Caddidae (Opiliones) in Asia, Far Eastern Entomologist 421, pp. 10-13 : 10-11

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Genus Caddo Banks, 1892 View in CoL

NOTES. All known species of Caddo are small (up to 3 mm) and inconspicuous, with thin, long legs. Very large eyes and eye tubercle, which occupy most of the carapace, are immediately apparent ( Figs 1, 2, 4 View Figs 1–7 ).

SPECIES INCLUDED. The genus Caddo consist of two extant species, C. agilis Banks,

1892 and C. pepperella Shear, 1975, and one fossil species C. dentipalpus ( Koch et Berendt,

1854) ( Baltic and Bitterfeld amber, Oligocene). Both extant species distributed in U.S.A., Canada and Japan, in addition to that C. agilis known from Kuril Islands and C. pepperella –

from South Korea (Suzuki 1958; Shear, 1975, 1996; Giribet & Kury, 2007; Groh & Giribet,

2015).