Stenochilidae
| Stenochilidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 12 species | |
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The Stenochilidae are a spider family with twelve described species in two genera. All species produce ecribellate silk (Griswold et al., 1999).
Distribution
The Stenochilidae occur in Southeast Asia.
Species
Colopea Simon, 1893
- Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar, Thailand)
- 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
- Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 (Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka)
- Stenochilus hobsoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 (India)
- Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 (India)
See also
References
- Platnick, N.I., Shadab, M.U. (1974). A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum novitates 2556 PDF - Abstract
- Griswold, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Platnick, N.I. and Forster, R.R. (1999). Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). Journal of Arachnology 27: 53-63. PDF
- Penney, D. 2004. Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(4): 579–584. PDF
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