[3] Species of the genus Sabacon have usually thickened pedipalps with stiff, fine hairs, which is unique among harvestmen.

Another American species Sabacon mitchelli, which, like the larger S. cavicolens also occurs in the eastern United States, notably lacks cheliceral glands in the male.

[6][7][8] The genus Sabacon is widespread in the temperate northern hemisphere, even extending into the subarctic, with the most southern records from caves in the southeastern United States and high elevations in Nepal.

[11] Staręga (2002: p. 602)[11] indicates that for all such the Baltic Amber material, "The Eocene locality fits into the present range of the genus Sabacon" Sabaconidae belongs to the superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea.

However, a new family, Taracidae, was then erected for Hesperonemastoma and Taracus, leaving Sabaconidae restored once again with just a single genus (i.e.