FIGURE 15. Hypothesis L4 in Opiliones are no longer the same—on suprafamilial groups in harvestmen (Arthropoda: Arachnida)

FIGURE 15. Hypothesis L4 of phylogeny of the Laniatores Kratochvíl (1958). After the work of Forster (1954), who created the Synthetonychiidae, this family went straight into the vicinity of the Triaenonychidae in the views of all most authors. Kratochvíl proposed a symmetrical arrangement of the groups we now know as Insidiatores versus Grassatores (then respectively called Travunioidea and Oncopodoidea). The morphological cladistic analysis by Martens (1980) recovered this arrangement, as well as both combined analyses by Giribet et al. (1999; 2002). Kury in his catalogue (2003) resurrected and expanded the original concept of Loman's Insidiatores, using this name for the same clade recognized by Kratochvíl as Travunioidea.