Trechaleidae
| Trechaleidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Trechaleidae Simon, 1890[1] |
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| Diversity[2] | |
| 16 genera, 120 species | |
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The Trechaleidae are a spider family with about 120 described species in 16 genera.[2]
Distribution
Almost all species in this family live in Central and South America. Only Shinobius orientalis is endemic to Japan.
Genera
As of March 2016[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]
- Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
- Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru
- Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
- Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Panama, Colombia, Trinidad, Peru, Brazil
- Dyrines Simon, 1903 – Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
- Enna O. P-Cambridge, 1897 – Central and South America
- Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
- Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – Central and South America
- Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Guyana, Brazil, Peru
- Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Central and South America
- Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
- Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
- Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
- Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Central and South America
- Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Central and South America
- Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
See also
References
- ^ a b "Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-27
- ^ a b "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-27
- 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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