Tags: Arachnid.
Banksula melones is a species of harvestman in family Phalangodidae. It is endemic to caves along the Stanislaus River of California USA.This with a body size of only slightly more than 2 mm minute harvestman lives only in caves. Its body is colored yellowish-orange with white to yellowish white appendages. It appears in the same caves as Banksula grahami which is slightly smaller and has no well-developed eyes. In fact B. melones has the best eyes in the whole genus except for B.