Ischnothyreus

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Ischnothyreus

Eye pattern of I. browni

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Oonopidae
Genus:	Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893

Diversity

19 species

Species

See text.

hooks on fangs of I. peltifer

Ischnothyreus is a genus of oonopid spiders generally between 1.25 (smallest male) and 2.25 mm (largest female) long. They have six eyes; in at least the species I. peltifer and I. omus, the males have a curious knob or hook at the base of the fang.

[edit] Species

Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893

Ischnothyreus aculeatus (Simon, 1893) — Sumatra, Philippines
Ischnothyreus bipartitus Simon, 1893 — Sri Lanka
Ischnothyreus browni Chickering, 1968 — Costa Rica
Ischnothyreus deccanensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1974 — India
Ischnothyreus flagellichelis Xu, 1989 — China
Ischnothyreus indressus Chickering, 1968 — Virgin and Leeward Islands
Ischnothyreus khamis Saaristo & van Harten, 2006 — Yemen
Ischnothyreus lanutoo Marples, 1955 — Samoa
Ischnothyreus linzhiensis Hu, 2001 — China
Ischnothyreus lymphaseus Simon, 1893 — Sri Lanka
Ischnothyreus narutomii (Nakatsudi, 1942) — Taiwan, Japan
Ischnothyreus pacificus Roewer, 1963 — Micronesia
Ischnothyreus peltifer (Simon, 1891) — USA to Panama, West Indies, St. Helena, Yemen, China, Taiwan, Hawai'i
Ischnothyreus serpentinum Saaristo, 2001 — Seychelles
Ischnothyreus shillongensis Tikader, 1968 — India, Bhutan
Ischnothyreus subaculeatus Roewer, 1938 — Moluccas
Ischnothyreus velox Jackson, 1908 — Seychelles, Europe (introduced)
Ischnothyreus vestigator Simon, 1893 — Sri Lanka
Ischnothyreus yueluensis Yin & Wang, 1984 — China

[edit] References

Chickering, A.M. (1968). The genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Central America and the West Indies. Psyche 75:77-86 PDF
Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.