Mysmenidae

Mysmenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Araneoidea
Family:	Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928
Genera
see text
Diversity
22 genera, 91 species

The Mysmenidae are a spider family with almost 100 described species in more than twenty genera.

Distribution

Species occur in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, New Guinea and several islands.

Genera

• Acrobleps Hickman, 1979 (Tasmania)
• Anjouanella Baert, 1986 (Comoro Islands)
• Brasilionata Wunderlich, 1995 (Brazil)
• Calodipoena Gertsch & Davis, 1936 (Central America, Caribic, Algeria)
• Calomyspoena Baert & Maelfait, 1983 (Galapagos)
• Crassignatha Wunderlich, 1995 (Malaysia)
• Iardinis Simon, 1899 (Nepal, India)
• Isela Griswold, 1985 (South Africa)
• Itapua Baert, 1984 (Paraguay)
• Kekenboschiella Baert, 1982 (New Guinea)
• Kilifina Baert & Murphy, 1992 (Kenya)
• Leviola Miller, 1970 (Angola)
• Maymena Gertsch, 1960 (Central to South America)
• Microdipoena Banks, 1895 (USA to Paraguay, Africa)
• Mysmena Simon, 1894 (Mediterranean, Oceania)
• Mysmenella Brignoli, 1980 (Palearctic, Africa, Oceania)
• Mysmeniola Thaler, 1995 (Venezuela)
• Mysmenopsis Simon, 1897 (USA to Peru)
• Phricotelus Simon, 1895 (Sri Lanka)
• Tamasesia Marples, 1955 (Samoa, New Caledonia)
• Taphiassa Simon, 1880 (New Caledonia)
• Trogloneta Simon, 1922 (USA, Europe, Canary Islands)

See also

• List of Mysmenidae species
• Spider families

References

• Coyle F.A., Meigs T.E. (1989). "Two new species of kleptoparasitic Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from Jamaica" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology 17 (1): 59–70. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v17_n1/JoA_v17_p59.pdf. 
• Coyle F.A., O'Shields T.C. Perlmutter D.G. (1991). "Observations on the behaviour of the kleptoparasitic spider, Mysmenopsis furtiva (Araneae, Mysmenidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology 19 (1): 62–6. http://americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v19_n1/JoA_v19_p62.pdf. 
• Hajer J, Reháková D (2003). "Spinning activity of the spider Trogloneta granulum (Araneae, Mysmenidae): web, cocoon, cocoon handling behaviour, draglines and attachment discs". Zoology (Jena) 106 (3): 223–31. doi:10.1078/0944-2006-00117. PMID 16351906. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0944-2006(04)70097-5.