Biology:Trochanteriidae

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Short description: Family of spiders

Flat spiders
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
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Platyoides species
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trochanteriidae
Karsch, 1879[1]
Diversity
6 genera, 52 species
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Synonyms

Trochanteriidae is a family of spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879[4] containing about 52 species in 6 genera.[1] Most are endemic to Australia though Doliomalus and Trochanteria are from South America and Plator is from Asia.[1] Platyoides species exist in southern and eastern Africa, Madagascar , and the Canary Islands with one species, P. walteri, introduced to Australia.[5]

Genera

Main page: Biology:List of Trochanteriidae species

(As of January 2023), the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]

  • Doliomalus Simon, 1897 – Chile
  • Hemicloea Thorell, 1870 – Australia, New Zealand
  • Plator Simon, 1880 – Asia
  • Platyoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Africa
  • Trochanteria Karsch, 1878 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
  • Vectius Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina


See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Family: Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/106. 
  2. Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. 
  3. Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates (2978). 
  4. Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beitrage". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 534–562. 
  5. Platnick, N. I. (2002). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 271: 1–244. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/494/1/B271.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q12040 entry