Biology:Flexicrurum
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Short description: Genus of spiders
Flexicrurum | |
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Flexicrurum minutum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Psilodercidae |
Genus: | Flexicrurum Tong & Li, 2007 |
Species | |
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Location of Hainan, China |
Flexicrurum is a genus of spiders from China similar to the genera Althepus and Leclercera. Tong and Li originally placed the genus in Ochyroceratidae[1] Still, Tong later moved it to Psilodercidae.[2] Males are generally smaller than 2 mm, but the size of females is unknown. The name is derived from the Latin flex "curved", and crur "leg", referring to the inner turned palpal tibia of the male.[1] (As of 2019) three described species have been found in caves of Hainan Island.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tong, Y. F.; Li, S. Q. (2007). "First records of the family Ochyroceratidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China, with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55: 63–76.
- ↑ Tong, Y. F. (2013). "Haplogynae spiders from Hainan, China". Science Press, Beijing: 19.
- ↑ "Family: Psilodercidae Machado,1951". Natural History Museum Bern. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/family/128/Psilodercidae.
Wikidata ☰ Q966456 entry
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