Nemesiidae
| Funnel-web tarantulas Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous-Recent
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| Calisoga sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Nemesiidae Simon, 1892 |
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| Diversity | |
| 41 genera, > 300 species | |
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The Nemesiidae are a spider family of the infraorder Mygalomorphae.[1] They were formerly considered part of the Dipluridae family.[2]
Description
Nemesiidae are relatively large, brown, elongated spiders with robust legs.[3] Female Atmetochilus can grow over 4 cm in body length.
These spiders live in burrows. Some finish these with a hinged door. They often push this door up and wait for passing prey. When they catch it they try not to leave their burrow. Sometimes a burrow has a side tube. It is not certain whether Sinopesa builds burrows.[4]
Genera
- Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880 — South America
- Aname L. Koch, 1873 — Australia
- Atmetochilus Simon, 1887 — Burma
- Brachythele Ausserer, 1871 — USA, Europe
- Calisoga Chamberlin, 1937 — USA
- Chaco Tullgren, 1905 — South America
- Chenistonia Hogg, 1901 — Australia
- Chilelopsis Goloboff, 1995 — Chile
- Damarchus Thorell, 1891 — India, Southeast Asia
- Diplothelopsis Tullgren, 1905 — Argentina
- Entypesa Simon, 1902 — Madagascar, South Africa
- Flamencopsis Goloboff, 1995 — South America, South Africa
- Hermacha Simon, 1889 — Brazil
- Hermachura Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
- Iberesia Decae & Cardoso, 2006 — Majorca, Spain, Portugal
- Ixamatus Simon, 1887 — Australia
- Kwonkan Main, 1983 — Australia
- Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
- Longistylus Indicatti & Lucas, 2005 — Brazil
- Lycinus Thorell, 1894 — Chile, Argentina
- Merredinia Main, 1983 — Australia
- Mexentypesa Raven, 1987 — Mexico
- Namea Raven, 1984 — Australia
- Nemesia Audouin, 1826 — Europe, Africa, Cuba, China
- Neostothis Vellard, 1925 — Brazil
- Pionothele Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
- Prorachias Mello-Leitão, 1924 — Brazil
- Psalistopoides Mello-Leitão, 1934 — Brazil
- Pselligmus Simon, 1892 — Brazil
- Pseudoteyl Main, 1985 — Australia
- Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 — South America
- Rachias Simon, 1892 — Brazil, Argentina
- Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 — Turkey to China, Russia
- Sinopesa Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 — China, Ryukyu Islands
- Spiroctenus Simon, 1889 — South Africa
- Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — New Zealand, Australia
- Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 — South America
- Teyl Main, 1975 — Australia
- Teyloides Main, 1985 — Australia
- Xamiatus Raven, 1981 — Australia
- Yilgarnia Main, 1986 — Australia
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Raven, R.J. 1985. The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
- ^ Platnick 2009
- ^ Find-a-spider Guide
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000
References
- Raven, R.J. (1985): The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
- Selden, P.A. (2001): Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures. Palaeontology 44: 695-729. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00199
- Raven, R.J. (1987): A new mygalomorph spider genus from Mexico (Nemesiinae, Nemesiidae, Arachnida). J. Arachnol. 14: 357-362. PDF (Mexentypesa)
- Pesarini, C. (1988): Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae). J. Arachnol. 16: 281-293. PDF
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Rafael P. Indicatti & Sylvia M. Lucas (2005): Description of a new genus of Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 1088: 11-16. PDF (Longistylus)
- Indicatti, Rafael P.; Lucas, Sylvia M.; Ott, Ricardo & Brescovit, Antonio D. (2008): Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(3): 529-546.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History.
- Goloboff, Pablo A. (1995): A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part 1, Species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the AMNH 224.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Nemesiidae.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nemesiidae.
- Photographs of three species (Aname sp., Ixamatus sp. and Namea salanitri)
- Pictures of Acanthogonus francki