Idiopidae
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Idiopidae | |
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male Idiops constructor | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Suborder: | Mygalomorphae |
Infraorder: | Fornicephalae |
Superfamily: | Idiopoidea |
Family: | Idiopidae Simon, 1892 |
Genera | |
see text | |
Diversity | |
22 genera, 275 species | |
Idiopidae[1] (superfamily Idiopoidea) are a mygalomorph spider family. They have a large body that often looks rather like a tarantula.
Description
In some species the males have a spur on their legs, which they will show if provoked.[2]
Idiopidae build burrows, and some species close these with a door.
The about 2 cm long Prothemenops siamensis from Thailand builds its retreat in a streamside vertical earth bank in lower montane rain forest. Each burrow had two or three entrances that lead into a main tube. Its lateral posterior spinnerets are elongated.[3]
Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Raven (1985)
- Arbanitinae Simon, 1903
- Aganippini
- Arbanitini
- Genysinae Simon, 1903
- Genysa Simon, 1889 — Madagascar
- Hiboka Fage, 1922 — Madagascar
- Neocteniza Pocock, 1895 — Central and South America
- Scalidognathus Karsch, 1891 — India, Sri Lanka, Seychelles
- Idiopinae Simon, 1892
- Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 — South Africa
- Galeosoma Purcell, 1903 — southern Africa
- Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902 — southern Africa
- Heligmomerus Simon, 1892 — Africa, India, Sri Lanka
- Idiops Perty, 1833 — South America, Africa, South Asia, Middle East
- Segregara Tucker, 1917 — South Africa
- Titanidiops Simon, 1903 — Africa, Canary Islands
- Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991 — Thailand
- Prothemenops siamensis Schwendinger, 1991
See also
- List of Idiopidae species
- Spider families
Footnotes
References
- Raven, Robert John (1985). The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
- Find-a-spider Guide: Spider Families
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
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- Find-a-spider Guide: Images of several species
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