| 21. | In most arachnids only the females provide parental care, with harvestmen being one of the few exceptions.
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| 22. | Solifuges and some harvestmen extend their knees by the use of highly elastic thickenings in the joint cuticle.
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| 23. | Oudemans, 1933 from former Yugoslavia is not a harvestman, but very likely a species of mite.
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| 24. | The "'Phalangiidae "'are a family of harvestmen with about 380 known species.
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| 25. | The harvestman is being consumed, while the mites benefit from traveling on and feeding off of their host.
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| 26. | The twitching has been hypothesized as a means to keep the attention of a predator while the harvestman escapes.
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| 27. | Species of this genus have usually thickened pedipalps with stiff, fine hairs, which is unique among harvestmen.
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| 28. | The two species were not, however, as closely related to the 270 other species of harvestmen studied.
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| 29. | The classification also helps clarify when side-eyed and fore-head eyed harvestmen split into distinct clades.
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| 30. | Harvestmen variously pass through four to eight nymphal instars to reach maturity, with most known species having six instars.
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