Holarchaeidae

Holarchaeidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Archaeoidea
Family:	Holarchaeidae Forster & Platnick, 1984
Genera
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The Holarchaeidae are a spider family with only two described species in one genus.

They are only up to 1.5mm in size and shiny black to beige in color. Together with the Uloboridae and the Mesothelae, they are one of three spiders known to lack venom glands.

Distribution

Holarchaeid spiders are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in microhabitats with consistently high humidity.

Species

Holarchaea Forster, 1955

• Holarchaea globosa (Hickman, 1981) (Tasmania)
• Holarchaea novaeseelandiae (Forster, 1949) (New Zealand)

See also

• List of Holarchaeidae species

References

• Forster, R. R. & N. I. Platnick (1984). A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 178:1-106. Abstract - PDF (60Mb)
• Meier J. & White J. (eds) {1995). Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Holarchaeid Spiders (Detailed description, with images of preserved specimens)