
Belongs within: Sclerosomatidae.
Aurivilliola is a genus of gagrelline harvestmen found in tropical Asia.
Characters (from Roewer 1955): Tuber oculorum dorsally smooth or denticulate, but without prominent, larger spines; second area of scutum or first and second area each with a median spine; femora I to IV with 0.3.0.0 nodules; first and third femora cylindrical and shorter than body.
<==Aurivilliola Roewer 1910 [=Aurivillia Roewer 1910 non Tutt 1902]C92 |--*A. aurivillii (Thorell 1894)C92 (see below for synonymy) | |--A. a. aurivilliiR55 | `--A. a. bispinosa Roewer 1923R55 |--A. annamensis Roewer 1927R55 |--A. bispinifera Roewer 1929R55 |--A. difformis Roewer 1955R55 |--A. ephippiata Roewer 1955R55 |--A. femoralis Roewer 1955R55 |--A. hirsuta Roewer 1912R55 |--A. javana Roewer 1931R55 |--A. nigripalpis Roewer 1929R55 |--A. palpalis Roewer 1915R55 |--A. segregata Roewer 1955R55 |--A. sepia (Loman 1892)R55 [=Gagrella sepiaR23] |--A. shanica Roewer 1929R55 |--A. sumatrana Roewer 1931R55 |--A. tibialis Roewer 1955R55 `--A. timorensis Schenkel 1944R55
*Aurivilliola aurivillii (Thorell 1894)C92 [=Melanopa aurivilliiC92, *Aurivillia aurivilliiC92, Gagrella aurivilliiR23; incl. Melanopa conspersa Thorell 1894R23, G. conspersaW03, G. simplex Loman 1902R23]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[C92] Crawford, R. L. 1992. Catalogue of the genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea (Arachnida). Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History 8: 1–60.
[R23] Roewer, C.-F. 1923. Die Weberknechte der Erde: Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannnten Opiliones. Gustav Fischer: Jena.
[R55] Roewer, C. F. 1955. Indoaustralische Gagrellinae (Opiliones, Arachnidae). (Weitere Weberknechte XVIII). 3. Teil. Senckenbergiana Biologica 36 (1–2): 71–121.
[W03] With, C. 1903. New and old Phalangiidae from the Indian region. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 28: 466–509.