InvertebrateIreland Online
InvertebrateIreland Online
Below is the Full Taxonomic Checklist. It has been recently updated with taxonomic changes, additions and deletions. These lists include the following taxa — Phylum, Class, Order, Superfamily, Family, Subfamily, Genus, Subgenus, Species and Subspecies. As with full species we only list those taxa present in Ireland. At each level in the taxonomic tree, the taxa are listed alphabetically. So the Subfamilies (if any are recognised) are ordered alphabetically within a Family, Genera alphabetically within Subfamily and/or Family and so on down the taxonomic tree. The only exception is the ordering of the families which follows the latest systematic opinion.
Clicking on a species name will take you to a species page, with further information.
| Phylum | Arthropoda | |||
| Class | Arachnida | |||
| Order | Opiliones | |||
| Suborder | Palpatores | |||
| Family |  No image yet available | Trogulidae | Sundevall, 1832 | |
| Genus | Anelasmocephalus | Simon, 1879 | ||
| Species | Anelasmocephalus cambridgei (Westwood, 1874) | |||
| Family |  Copyright Dragisa Savic | Nemastomatidae | Simon, 1879 | |
| Genus | Nemastoma | C.L. Koch, 1836 | ||
| Species | Nemastoma bimaculatum (Fabricius, 1775) | |||
| Genus | Mitostoma | Roewer, 1951 | ||
| Species | Mitostoma chrysomelas (Hermann, 1804) | |||
| Family |  Copyright Luciana Bartolini | Phalangiidae | Simon, 1879 | |
| Subfamily | Oligolophinae | Banks, 1893 | ||
| Genus | Dicranopalpus | Doleschall, 1852 | ||
| Species | Dicranopalpus ramosus (Simon, 1909) | |||
| Genus | Mitopus | Thorell, 1876 | ||
| Species | Mitopus morio (Fabricius, 1779) | |||
| Genus | Oligolophus | C.L Koch, 1871 | ||
| Species | Oligolophus tridens (C.L Koch, 1871) | |||
| Species | Oligolophus hanseni (Kraepelin, 1884) | |||
| Genus | Odiellus | Roewer, 1923 | ||
| Species | Odiellus spinosus (Bosc, 1792) | |||
| Genus | Lacinius | Thorell, 1876 | ||
| Species | Lacinius ephippiatus (C.L Koch, 1836) | |||
| Genus | Phalangium | Linne, 1758 | ||
| Species | Phalangium opilio Linne, 1761 | |||
| Genus | Opilio | Herbst, 1798 | ||
| Species | Opilio parietinus (Degeer, 1879) | |||
| Species | Opilio saxatilis C.L Koch, 1839 | |||
| Genus | Rilaena | Silhavy, 1965 | ||
| Species | Rilaena triangularis (Herbst, 1779) | |||
| Genus | Megabunus | Meade, 1858 | ||
| Species | Megabunus diadema (Fabricius, 1779) | |||
| Subfamily | Leiobuninae | Banks, 1895 | ||
| Genus | Leiobunum | C.L Koch, 1839 | ||
| Species | Leiobunum rotundum (Latreille, 1795) | |||
| Species | Leiobunum blackwalli Meade, 1861 | |||
| Genus | Nelima | Roewer, 1910 | ||
| Species | Nelima gothica Lohmander, 1945 | |||
| Genus | Paroligolophus | Lohmander 1945 | ||
| Species | Paroligolophus agrestis (Meade, 1855) |