Opilio is a genus of harvestmen with 35 known species.
Name
The genus name is derived from Latin opilio "sheep-master" (a kind of slave), used by Plautus, also used by Virgil with the meaning "shepherd".
Species
Opilio contains the following thirty-five species:
- Opilio afghanus <small>Roewer, 1960</small>
- Opilio apsheronicus <small>Snegovaya, 2005</small>
- Opilio arborphilus <small>Snegovaya, 2010</small>
- Opilio canestrinii <small>(Thorell, 1876)</small>
- Opilio caucasicus <small>Snegovaya, 2010</small>
- Opilio coxipunctus <small>(Sørensen, 1911)</small>
- Opilio decoratus <small>Koch, 1878</small>
- Opilio dinaricus <small>Ã
 ilhavý, 1938</small>
- Opilio ejuncidus <small>(Thorell, 1876)</small>
- Opilio grasshoffi <small>StarÃÂga, 1986</small>
- Opilio hemseni <small>Roewer, 1952</small>
- Opilio himalincola <small>Martens, 1973</small>
- Opilio insulae <small>Roewer, 1956</small>
- Opilio kakunini <small>Snegovaya, Cokendolpher & Mozaffarian, 2018</small>
- Opilio lederi <small>Roewer, 1911</small>
- Opilio lepidus <small>Koch, 1879</small>
- Opilio magnus <small>HadÃ
¾i, 1973</small>
- Opilio minutus <small>Meade, 1855</small>
- Opilio morini <small>Snegovaya, 2016</small>
- Opilio nabozhenkoi <small>Snegovaya, 2010</small>
- â Opilio ovalis <small>Berendt & Koch, 1854</small>
- Opilio parietinus <small>(De Geer, 1778)</small>
- Opilio putnik <small>Karaman, 1999</small>
- Opilio ravennae <small>Spoek, 1962</small>
- Opilio rossicus <small>Snegovaya, 2016</small>
- Opilio rutilus <small>Morin, 1934</small>
- Opilio ruzickai <small>Ã
 ilhavý, 1938</small>
- Opilio saxatilis <small>Koch, 1839</small>
- Opilio setipenis <small>Snegovaya, 2008</small>
- Opilio shirvanicus <small>Snegovaya, 2005</small>
- Opilio silhavyi <small>KratochvÃÂl, 1936</small>
- Opilio silvestris <small>Snegovaya, 2010</small>
- Opilio transversalis <small>Roewer, 1956</small>
- Opilio trispinifrons <small>Roewer, 1911</small>
- Opilio validus <small>Roewer, 1959</small>
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