Trochanteriidae
| Flat spiders Temporal range:
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| Platyoides species | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879[1] |
| Diversity | |
| 21 genera, 184 species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Trochanteriidae is a family of spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879[4] containing about 180 species in 21 genera.[1] Most are endemic to Australia though Doliomalus and Trochanteria are from South America and Olin and Plator are from Asia.[1] Platyoides species exist in southern and eastern Africa, Madagascar, and the Canary Islands with one species, P. walteri, introduced to Australia.[5]
Genera
As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]
- Boolathana Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Desognanops Platnick, 2008 – Australia
- Desognaphosa Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Doliomalus Simon, 1897 – Chile
- Fissarena Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 – Australia
- Hemicloea Thorell, 1870 – Australia, New Zealand
- Hemicloeina Simon, 1893 – Australia, Papua New Guinea
- Longrita Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Morebilus Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Olin Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia, Australia
- Plator Simon, 1880 – Asia
- Platorish Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Platyoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Africa
- Pyrnus Simon, 1880 – Australia
- Rebilus Simon, 1880 – Australia
- Tinytrema Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Trachycosmus Simon, 1893 – Australia
- Trachyspina Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Trachytrema Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Trochanteria Karsch, 1878 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
- Vectius Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Family: Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates. 2978.
- ^ Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beitrage". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (2002). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271.
External links
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