Tengellidae

Tengellidae
Titiotus sp. from California
Scientific classification
Missing taxonomy template (fix):	Tengellidae
Genera
See text.
Diversity
8 genera, 37 species

Tengellidae is a spider family with eight genera and a little over 30 species worldwide. The family is confined to the New World, with two monotypic genera occurring in Madagascar and New Zealand, respectively. Like most spiders, tengellids 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

Genera

As of October 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepts 10 genera:

• Anachemmis Chamberlin, 1919
• Austrotengella Raven, 2012
• Calamistrula Dahl, 1901
• Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921
• Lauricius Simon, 1888
• Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881
• Socalchemmis Platnick & Ubick, 2001
• Tengella Dahl, 1901
• Titiotus Simon, 1897
• Wiltona Koçak & Kemal, 2008

See also

• List of Tengellidae species
• Spider families

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. & , R.R. (1999). Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). J. Arachnol. 27: 53-63.