Harvestmen are
arachnids, related to spiders. They have eight legs and two palps
at the front, which with some species can look like an additional
pair of legs.
Many can be found in leaf litter but also
wondering around on walls or trees. If you go out at night with a
torch, you are likely to see many more species
hunting.
The current
species list for Guernsey is:
- Dicranopalpus
larvatus
- Dicranopalpus
ramosus
- Histricostoma
argenteolunulatum
- Homalenotus
quadridentatus (Alderney only) - no photo yet
- Leiobunum
blackwalli
- Leiobunum
rotundum
- Mitopus
morio
- Mitostoma
chrysomelas (Alderney only)
- Nemastoma
bimaculatum
- Oligolophus
hanseni - no photo yet
- Opilio
parietinus - no photo yet
- Opilio
saxatilis
- Paroligolophus
agrestis
- Phalangium
opilio
- Scotolemon
doriae
I
have added some photographs of those species I have seen which may
help with identification.
