Liocranid sac spider

Liocranid sac spiders
Liocranum rupicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Corinnoidea
Family: Liocranidae
Simon, 1897
Genera

Agroeca
Neoanagraphis
many others

Diversity
30 genera, > 150 species

Liocranid sac spiders consist of about 160 species of wandering spiders in 30 or so genera. The best known are those in the Holarctic genus Agroeca. Various genera of rather obscure spiders are included in the family, which still lacks a diagnosis. Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. The females apparently live in animal burrows and the males wander and are often caught in pitfall traps.

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Genera

The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.

  • Cybaeodes Simon, 1878 (Mediterranean)
  • Donuea Strand, 1932 (Madagascar)
  • Hesperocranum Ubick & Platnick, 1991 (USA)
  • Heterochemmis F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900 (Mexico)
  • Itatsina Kishida, 1930 (China, Korea, Japan)
  • Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Myanmar, Thailand)
  • Laudetia Gertsch, 1941 (Dominica)
  • Apostenus Westring, 1851 (Africa, Europe, North America)
  • Argistes Simon, 1897 (Namibia, Sri Lanka)
  • Coryssiphus Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
  • Liocranoeca Wunderlich, 1999 (USA, Europe, Russia)
  • Liocranum L. Koch, 1866 (Cuba, Europe to Georgia, Mediterranean, New Guinea)
  • Liparochrysis Simon, 1909 (Australia)
  • Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Mediterranean, Central Asia, Africa)
  • Mesobria Simon, 1897 (St. Vincent)
  • Montebello Hogg, 1914 (Australia)
  • Neoanagraphis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 (USA, Mexico)
  • Paratus Simon, 1898 (Sri Lanka)
  • Plynnon Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Borneo, Sumatra)
  • Rhaeboctesis Simon, 1897 (Africa)
  • Sagana Thorell, 1875 (Europe to Georgia)
  • Scotina Menge, 1873 (Europe, Algeria, Russia, Malta)
  • Sesieutes Simon, 1897 (southern Asia)
  • Sphingius Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)
  • Sudharmia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Sumatra)
  • Teutamus Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)
  • Agraecina Simon, 1932 (Western Mediterranean, Romania, Canary Islands)
  • Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Holarctic)
  • Andromma Simon, 1893 (Africa)
  • Brachyanillus Simon, 1913 (Spain, Algeria)

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