Biology:Flexicrurum

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Short description: Genus of spiders


Flexicrurum
Flexicrurum minutum (10.3897-zookeys.855.34383) Figure 7.jpg
Flexicrurum minutum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Psilodercidae
Genus: Flexicrurum
Tong & Li, 2007
Species
  • Tong & Li, 2007 Tong & Li, 2007
  • Flexicrurum longispina Flexicrurum flexicrurum
  • Tong & Li, 2007 Flexicrurum minutum
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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. 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. 
  2. Tong, Y. F. (2013). "Haplogynae spiders from Hainan, China". Science Press, Beijing: 19. 
  3. "Family: Psilodercidae Machado,1951". Natural History Museum Bern. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/family/128/Psilodercidae. 

Wikidata ☰ Q966456 entry