Stenochilidae

Summary

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.

Stenochilidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

Species edit

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 edit

  • List of Stenochilidae species
  • Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.

References edit

  1. ^ Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
  3. ^ "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  4. ^ Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2556).