Opiliones- Harvest men for id please..

[bonitin]

Hi,
I have three Harvest men that would like to get a name
I would appreciate any help!

Nr.1 I think could be Rilaena triangularis perhaps ?

Nr.2

Nr3:

[Tiggrx]

2 & 3 are Dicranopalpus ramosus - the branched palps and way of sitting flat on a surface are distinctive

[Pudding4brains]

Howdy,

You've got nr.1 correctly down for Rilaena triangularis Probably fresh female adult.

The D.ramosus both are females ofcourse.

Cheers, Arp

[bonitin]

Thank you Tiggrx!

While I was sorting out my spider folder I found 3 more;




This one I found under a dead tree log..

[bonitin]

Oh thank you Arp! May I ask how you know whether its a female or male?

[Pudding4brains]

Leiobunum blackwalli male

Opilio canestrinii female

Tricky one - eyes look more like Paroligolophus agrestis, but the apparent lack of denticules might be due to (lack of) sharpness? Saddle more like Oligolophus tridens (or maybe Lacinius eph.?). Trident too far away outside the depths of field to analyse. 1st guesstimate O. tridens female - gotta run now, will look again later.

Males & females depending on species - sometimes very hard, sometimes very easy. Difference in body shape and colours and oftin in minute details on palps and chelicera.

Here's a few:

[bonitin]

Thank you so much!
I have one more picture of the tricky one that could perhaps be useful.

[Pudding4brains]

It would be best to have the eyes and trident on the "nose" in focus, but after a second, less hasty look I'm pretty confident it's O. tridens, habitus and colours/saddle just scream it even if the ocularium seems a tad unusual - but I'll blame that on the focus

Cheers, Arp

[bonitin]

Thanks Arp!
It was not easy to get a better picture because of the bad light circumstances..

[Pudding4brains]

Don't worry about that, most of my images are far worse - even when I do know what to try and get into focus. Critters from a shaded forest floor are a disaster I didn't mean to brutally slander about your photos, but just to indicate where the problems in IDing are

Cheers, Arp

[bonitin]

Yes Arp, you are so kind!, never felt you had brutally slandered my photos! and I really do understand where the difficulty in identifying lays, specially from non-optimal photos!
Critters from a shaded forest floor are indeed a head breaker for getting a decent photo, sigh..
Thanks a bunch for your help!