Boreosolifugae is a

suborder Order () is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized ...

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s in the

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Solifugae Solifugae is an Order (biology), order of Arachnid, arachnids known variously as solifuges, sun spiders, camel spiders, and wind scorpions. The order includes more than 1,000 described species in about 147 genus, genera. Despite the common names, ...

. In 2023, the internal phylogeny of solifuges was resolved for the first time using

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. The molecular phylogeny of the order showed evidence for two groups of families, which were recognized as suborders. Boreosolifugae comprises five families, predominantly from the

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Eremobatidae Eremobatidae is a family of solifuges endemic to North America, first described by Karl Kraepelin Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin (; ; 14 December 1848 – 28 June 1915) was a German naturalist who specialised in the study of scorpio ...

Kraepelin, 1901 *

Galeodidae Galeodidae is a family of Solifugae, solifuges, first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. Genera , the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following nine genera: * ''Galeodes'' Olivier, 1791 * ''Galeodopsis'' Birula, 1903 * ''Galeodumus'' ...

Sundevall, 1833 *

Gylippidae Gylippidae is a family of solifuges, first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1933. Genera , the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following five genera: * '' Acanthogylippus'' Birula, 1913 * '' Bdellophaga'' Wharton, 1981 * ''Gylippus ...

Roewer, 1933 *

Karschiidae Karschiidae is a family of solifuges, first described by Karl Kraepelin in 1899. Genera , the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following four genera: * '' Barrus'' Simon, 1880 * '' Barrussus'' Roewer, 1928 * '' Eusimonia'' Kraepelin, 1899 ...

Kraepelin, 1899 *

Rhagodidae Rhagodidae is a family of solifuges, first described by Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock ...

Pocock, 1897 The taxonomy of the Protosolpugidae remains uncertain.

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Solifugae Arthropod suborders Taxa described in 2023 {{Solifugae-stub