Biology:Stenochilidae

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Short description: Family of spiders

Stenochilidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Palpimanoidea
Family: Stenochilidae
Thorell, 1873
Genera
Diversity
2 genera, 14 species
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Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk.[1] First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873,[2] it now contains twelve described species in two genera.

Species

(As of April 2019), the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:[3][4]

Colopea Simon, 1893

  • Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, Thailand
  • Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 — China
  • Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
  • Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) — Philippines
  • Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 — Bali
  • Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
  • Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — Fiji
  • Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 — Borneo
  • Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Vietnam
  • Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea

Stenochilus O. P-Cambridge, 1870

See also

References

  1. Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)". Journal of Arachnology 27: 53–63. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0053.pdf. 
  2. Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. 
  3. "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/91. 
  4. Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates (2556). http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5448/1/N2556.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q11723 entry