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