Solifuges
Solifugae
Solifugae is an order of animals in the class Arachnida known variously as camel spiders, wind scorpions, sun spiders, or solifuges. The order includes more than 1,000 described species in about 153 genera. Despite the common names, they are neither true scorpions (order Scorpiones) nor true spiders (order Araneae). Much like a spider, the body of a solifugid has two tagmata: an opisthosoma (abdomen) behind the prosoma (that is, in effect, a combined head and thorax)....
15 branches of this order, most-observed first
Straight-faced Windscorpions
familyEremobatidae
Curve-faced Windscorpions
familyAmmotrechidae
Common Romans
familySolpugidae
Galeodidae
familyGaleodidae
Membraneromans
familyDaesiidae
Mummuciidae
familyMummuciidae
Rhagodidae
familyRhagodidae
Karschiidae
familyKarschiidae
Whipromans
familyCeromidae
Teddybear Solifuges
familyHexisopodidae
Slenderromans
familyGylippidae
Dinorhaxidae
familyDinorhaxidae
Blackromans
familyMelanoblossiidae
Namibesiidae
familyNamibesiidae
Lipophagidae
familyLipophagidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47824.