Trechaleidae

Trechaleidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Trechaleidae
Simon, 1890[1]
Genera

See text.

Diversity[2]
16 genera, 120 species

The Trechaleidae are a spider family with about 120 described species in 16 genera.[2]

Distribution

Almost all species in this family live in Central and South America. Only Shinobius orientalis is endemic to Japan.

Genera

As of March 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]

  • Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
  • Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru
  • Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
  • Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Panama, Colombia, Trinidad, Peru, Brazil
  • Dyrines Simon, 1903 – Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
  • Enna O. P-Cambridge, 1897 – Central and South America
  • Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
  • Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – Central and South America
  • Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Guyana, Brazil, Peru
  • Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Central and South America
  • Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
  • Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
  • Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
  • Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Central and South America
  • Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Central and South America
  • Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-27
  2. 1 2 "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-27
  • Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59. PDF
  • Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. J. Arachnol. 21: 226-257. PDF


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