Trechaleidae

Trechaleidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890,[2] and includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.[3]

Not to be confused with Trachelidae.

Trechaleidae
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Syntrechalea sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trechaleidae
Simon, 1890[1]
Diversity
16 genera, 140 species

Genera
Main article: List of Trechaleidae species

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]

  • Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
  • Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – South America, Panama
  • Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
  • Cupiennius Simon, 1891 – Mexico to northwestern South America
  • Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Trinidad, South America
  • Dyrines Simon, 1903 – South America, Panama
  • Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 – South America, Central America, Mexico
  • Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
  • Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – South America, Central America
  • Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Guyana, Peru
  • Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – South America, Nicaragua
  • Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
  • Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – South America
  • Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
  • Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – South America, Mexico
  • Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Trinidad, South America, North America, Central America
  • Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – South America

See also

References
  1. "Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  2. Simon, E. (1890). Etudes arachnologiques.
  3. Yaginuma, T. (1991). "A new genus, Shinobius, of the Japanese pisaurid spider (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Acta Arachnologica. 40: 1–6.

Further reading
  • Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59. PDF
  • Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. J. Arachnol. 21: 226-257. PDF


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