Tengellidae
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| Titiotus sp. from California | |
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| Superfamily: | Tengelloidea
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| Family: | Tengellidae Dahl, 1908
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| 8 genera, 37 species | |
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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.
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
- Anachemmis Chamberlin, 1919 (USA, Mexico; 5 species)
- Calamistrula Dahl, 1901 (Madagascar; 1 species)
- Lauricius Simon, 1888 (USA, Mexico; 2 species)
- Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881 (USA; 5 species)
- Socalchemmis Platnick & Ubick, 2001 (USA, Mexico; 17 species)
- Tengella Dahl, 1901 (South America, Costa Rica, Mexico; 3 species)
- Titiotus Simon, 1897 (Brazil, USA; 3 species)
- Haurokoa Koçak & Kemal, 2008 (New Zealand; 1 species)
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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