Palpimanidae

The Palp-footed spiders (Palpimanidae) are a spider family with about 130 described species in 15 genera. Instead of the normal six, Palpimanidae have only two spinnerets. Their first legs are greatly enlarged.^[1]. All species produce ecribellate silk ^[2]. Palpimanidae have six eyes, a red cephalothorax, very strong first legs, which are raised while moving. At least Palpimanus gibbulus lives in leaf litter or under stones in dry soils.^[3]

Distribution

Species of this family occur in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, China, with a few species in the Mediterranean and one in Uzbekistan.

Genera

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

• Chediminae

• Badia Roewer, 1961 — Senegal
• Boagrius Simon, 1893 — Africa, South Asia
• Chedima Simon, 1873 — Morocco
• Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893 — Africa
• Hybosida Simon, 1898 — Africa, Seychelles
• Sarascelis Simon, 1887 — Africa, India, Malaysia
• Scelidocteus Simon, 1907 — Africa
• Scelidomachus Pocock, 1899 — Socotra
• Steriphopus Simon, 1887 — Myanmar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka

• Otiothopinae Platnick, 1999

• Anisaedus Simon, 1893 — South America, Africa
• Fernandezina Birabén, 1951 — South America
• Notiothops Platnick, Grismado & Ramírez, 1999 — Chile
• Otiothops MacLeay, 1839 — South America, Cuba

• Palpimaninae Thorell, 1870

• Ikuma Lawrence, 1938 — Namibia
• Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 — Mediterranean, Africa, South America, India, Uzbekistan

See also

• List of Palpimanidae species
• Spider families

References

1. ^ Platnick 1975
2. ^ Griswold et al. 1999
3. ^ ARACNIS - Palpimanidae

• Platnick, N.I. (1975): A revision of the palpimanid spiders of the new subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimandae). American Museum novitates 2562. 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
• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• Platnick, N.I. (1978): A new Otiothops from Colombia (Araneae, Palpimanidae). J. Arachnol. 5: 179-180. PDF (O. kochalkai)
• Platnick, N.I. (1985): On the Chilean spiders of the family Palpimanidae (Arachnida, Araneae). J. Arachnol. 13: 399-400. PDF
• Platnick, N.I., Grismado, C.J. & Ramírez, M.J. (1999): On the genera of the spider subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimanidae). American Museum novitates 3257. PDF - Abstract
• Grismado, C.J. (2002): Palpimanid spiders from Guyana: New species of the genera Fernandezina and Otiothops (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Otiothopinae). Iheringia, Sér. Zool. 92: 3. PDF - HTML - doi:10.1590/S0073-47212002000300002

External links

• Picture of Palpimanus gibbulus