Nicodamidae

Nicodamidae
male Megadictyna thilenii from New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Dictynoidea
Family:	Nicodamidae Simon, 1898
Genera
see text
Diversity
9 genera, 29 species

The Nicodamidae are a spider family with 29 species in nine genera.

They are small to medium sized spiders found in small sheet webs close to the ground in eucalypt forests. In most cases the cephalothorax and legs are uniformly red and the abdomen black, for which these species are sometimes called the red and black spider.

Distribution

The species of this family are only present in New Zealand and the Australian region.

Species

Ambicodamus Harvey, 1995

• Ambicodamus audax Harvey, 1995 (Eastern Australia)
• Ambicodamus crinitus (L. Koch, 1872) (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus dale Harvey, 1995 (Queensland)
• Ambicodamus darlingtoni Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)
• Ambicodamus emu Harvey, 1995 (Queensland)
• Ambicodamus kochi Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia)
• Ambicodamus leei Harvey, 1995 (South Australia)
• Ambicodamus marae Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia)
• Ambicodamus sororius Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus southwelli Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus urbanus Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)

Dimidamus Harvey, 1995

• Dimidamus arau Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus dimidiatus (Simon, 1897) (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Dimidamus enaro Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus leopoldi (Roewer, 1938) (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus sero Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus simoni Harvey, 1995 (Victoria)

Durodamus Harvey, 1995

• Durodamus yeni Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, Victoria, South Australia)

Forstertyna Harvey, 1995

• Forstertyna marplesi (Forster, 1970) (New Zealand)

Litodamus Harvey, 1995

• Litodamus collinus Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)
• Litodamus hickmani Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)
• Litodamus olga Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)

Megadictyna Dahl, 1906

• Megadictyna thilenii Dahl, 1906 (New Zealand)

Nicodamus Simon, 1887

• Nicodamus mainae Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Nicodamus peregrinus (Walckenaer, 1842) (Eastern Australia)

Novodamus Harvey, 1995

• Novodamus nodatus (Karsch, 1878) (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Novodamus supernus Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)

Oncodamus Harvey, 1995

• Oncodamus bidens (Karsch, 1878) (New South Wales)
• Oncodamus decipiens Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, New South Wales)

See also

• List of Nicodamidae species
• Spider families

References

• Harvey, M.S. (1995). The systematics of the spider family Nicodamidae ( Araneae: Amaurobioidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 9(2):279-386

External links

• Picture of a Durodamus species