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The '''tengellid spiders''' (family ''Tengellidae'') include eight [[genus|genera]] and a little over 30 [[species]] worldwide. The family is confined to the [[New World]] and [[Madagascar]] (one species and genus). The characters defining the family are technical and there are still some disagreements as to its size and placement within spider classification. Like most spiders, they have eight eyes.
The '''tengellid spiders''' (family ''Tengellidae'') include eight [[genus|genera]] and a little over 30 [[species]] worldwide. The family is confined to the [[New World]] and [[Madagascar]] (one species and genus). The characters defining the family are technical and there are still some disagreements as to its size and placement within spider classification. Like most spiders, they have eight eyes.
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==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of Tengellidae species]]
* [[List of Tengellidae species]]
* [[Araneae families]]
* [[Spider families]]


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 20:50, 4 December 2006

Tengellid spiders
Scientific classification
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Superfamily:
Tengelloidea
Family:
Tengellidae

Dahl, 1908
Genera

Lauricius

Diversity
8 genera, 36 species

The tengellid spiders (family Tengellidae) include eight genera and a little over 30 species worldwide. The family is confined to the New World and Madagascar (one species and genus). The characters defining the family are technical and there are still some disagreements as to its size and placement within spider classification. Like most spiders, they have eight eyes.

Some of these strange spiders look like a cross between a crab spider and a sac spider, as in the American genus Lauricius. This is another of the families carved of the catchall family Clubionidae over the last 20 or so years.

Genera

See also

External links