Palpimanidae
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| Palpimanidae | |
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| Anisaedus levii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Superfamily: | Palpimanoidea |
| Family: | Palpimanidae Thorell, 1870 |
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| Diversity | |
| 15 genera, 127 species | |
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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
- ↑ Platnick 1975
- ↑ Griswold et al. 1999
- ↑ 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
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