Tetrablemmidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetrablemmidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 |
| Diversity | |
| 27 genera, 142 species | |
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Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873.[1] It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Africa and Central and South America.[2] Pacullidae was incorporated into this family in 1981,[3] but was later restored as a separate family in a 2016 phylogenetic study.[4]
Most species have been collected from litter and soil, including that of epiphytes. Some live in caves and show typical adaptations of cave spiders, such as loss of eyes and weak sclerotization.[5][6] Members of Paculla are four to five times larger than others in the family. Members of Tetrablemma only have four eyes,[1] a trait in spiders only found in these and certain members of Caponiidae.
Genera[]
As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[2]
- Ablemma Roewer, 1963 — Papua New Guinea, Asia
- Afroblemma Lehtinen, 1981 — Angola, Tanzania, Congo
- Anansia Lehtinen, 1981 — Angola
- Bacillemma Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993 — Thailand
- Borneomma Deeleman-Reinhold, 1980 — Indonesia
- Brignoliella Shear, 1978 — Asia, Oceania
- Caraimatta Lehtinen, 1981 — Mexico, Caribbean, Central America
- Choiroblemma Bourne, 1980 — India
- Cuangoblemma Brignoli, 1974 — Angola
- Fallablemma Shear, 1978 — Samoa, Indonesia
- Gunasekara Lehtinen, 1981 — Sri Lanka
- Hexablemma Berland, 1920 — Kenya
- Indicoblemma Bourne, 1980 — China, Thailand, India
- Lehtinenia Tong & Li, 2008 — China
- Maijana Lehtinen, 1981 — Indonesia
- Mariblemma Lehtinen, 1981 — Seychelles
- Matta Crosby, 1934 — Brazil, Mexico
- Micromatta Lehtinen, 1981 — Belize
- Monoblemma Gertsch, 1941 — South America, Madagascar, Panama
- Pahanga Shear, 1979 — Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia
- Rhinoblemma Lehtinen, 1981 — Caroline Is.
- Shearella Lehtinen, 1981 — India, Sri Lanka, China
- Sinamma Lin & Li, 2014 — China
- Singalangia Lehtinen, 1981 — Indonesia
- Singaporemma Shear, 1978 — Asia
- Sulaimania Lehtinen, 1981 — Singapore, Malaysia
- Tetrablemma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 — Oceania, Africa, Asia, Trinidad
Extinct genera[]
- † Wunderlich 2004 Bitterfeld, Baltic amber, Eocene
- † Wunderlich 2015 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Selden et al. 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2008 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2012 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- † Wunderlich 2015 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 41 (1): 112–129.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Family: Tetrablemmidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1981). "Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. III. Tetrablemmidae, with a world revision". Acta Zoologica Fennica. 162: 20.
- ^ Wheeler, Ward C.; et al. (2016). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 574–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.
- ^ Shear, W.A. (1978). "Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2650.
- ^ Burger, M.; et al. (2005). "Complex genital system of a haplogyne spider (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) indicates internal fertilization and full female control over transferred sperm". Journal of Morphology. 267 (2): 166–186. doi:10.1002/jmor.10394. PMID 16276493. S2CID 9408450.
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