Trechaleidae
| Trechaleidae | |
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| Syntrechalea sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Trechaleidae Simon, 1890[1] |
| Diversity | |
| 16 genera, 140 species | |
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Trechaleidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890,[2] and includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.[3]
Genera[]
As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]
- Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
- Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – South America, Panama
- Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
- Cupiennius Simon, 1891 – Mexico to northwestern South America
- Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Trinidad, South America
- Dyrines Simon, 1903 – South America, Panama
- Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 – South America, Central America, Mexico
- Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
- Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – South America, Central America
- Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Guyana, Peru
- Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – South America, Nicaragua
- Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
- Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – South America
- Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
- Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – South America, Mexico
- Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Trinidad, South America, North America, Central America
- Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – South America
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Simon, E. (1890). Etudes arachnologiques.
- ^ Yaginuma, T. (1991). "A new genus, Shinobius, of the Japanese pisaurid spider (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Acta Arachnologica. 40: 1–6. doi:10.2476/asjaa.40.1.
Further reading[]
- 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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