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Some of these strange spiders look like a cross between a crab spider and a sac spider, as in the [[United States|American]] genus ''Lauricius''.
Some of these strange spiders look like a cross between a crab spider and a sac spider, as in the [[United States|American]] genus ''Lauricius''.


The genus ''Haurokoa'' was renamed to ''Wiltona'' in 2009.
The genus ''Haurokoa'' was renamed to ''Wiltona'' in 2008.


==Genera==
==Genera==
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* ''[[Tengella]]'' Dahl, 1901 ([[South America]], [[Costa Rica]], Mexico; 3 species)
* ''[[Tengella]]'' Dahl, 1901 ([[South America]], [[Costa Rica]], Mexico; 3 species)
* ''[[Titiotus]]'' Simon, 1897 ([[Brazil]], USA; 3 species)
* ''[[Titiotus]]'' Simon, 1897 ([[Brazil]], USA; 3 species)
* ''[[Haurokoa]]'' Koçak & Kemal, 2009 (New Zealand; 1 species)
* ''[[Haurokoa]]'' Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (New Zealand; 1 species)


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 08:47, 8 September 2009

Tengellid spiders
Titiotus sp. from California
Scientific classification
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Tengelloidea
Family:
Tengellidae

Dahl, 1908
Genera

Lauricius
Titiotus

Diversity
8 genera, 37 species

The tengellid spiders (family Tengellidae) include eight genera and a little over 30 species worldwide. The family is confined to the New World, with two monotypic genera occurring in and Madagascar and New Zealand, respectively. Like most spiders, they have eight eyes. The characters defining the family are technical and there are still some disagreements as to its size and placement within spider classification. According to Griswold (1993), the family is polyphyletic. This is another of the families removed from the catchall family Clubionidae over the last 20 or so years.

Unidentified tengellid from California

Some of these strange spiders look like a cross between a crab spider and a sac spider, as in the American genus Lauricius.

The genus Haurokoa was renamed to Wiltona in 2008.

Genera

See also

References

  • Griswold, C.E. (1993) Investigations into the phylogeny of the lycosoid spiders and their kin (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 539: 1-39.
  • Griswold, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. (1999). Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). J. Arachnol. 27: 53-63.

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