''Banksula'' is a genus of

harvestman The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs (see below). , over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide, although the total n ...

in family

Phalangodidae The Phalangodidae are a family of harvestman, harvestmen with about 30 genus, genera and more than 100 described species, distributed in the Holarctic region. It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangiidae, which is in the su ...

. Currently, ten species are described, all of them

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

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, United States. The genus is named in honor of

Nathan Banks Nathan Banks (April 13, 1868 – January 24, 1953) was an American entomologist noted for his work on Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Hymenoptera, and Acarina (mites). He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA. In 1909 he reported many Costa Rican ...

, who described the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

Species

* '' Banksula californica'' (Banks, 1900) * '' Banksula galilei'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula grahami'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula grubbsi'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * '' Banksula incredula'' Ubick & Briggs, 2002 * '' Banksula martinorum'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * '' Banksula melones'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula rudolphi'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * '' Banksula tuolumne'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula tutankhamen'' Ubick & Briggs, 2002

References

* 's Biology Catalog
Phalangodidae
Harvestmen Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Opiliones-stub