Trochanteriidae

Taxobox


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
superfamilia = Gnaphosoidea
familia = Trochanteriidae
familia_authority = Karsch, 1879
diversity_link = List of Trochanteriidae species
diversity = 18 genera, 149 species
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The Trochanteriidae are a spider family with 149 species in 18 genera.

Distribution

Most genera are endemic to Australia.

"Doliomalus" is endemic to Chile, "Trochanteria" to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.

"Olin" occurs on Sulawesi and Christmas Island, "Plator" species live in China, India, Korea and Japan.

"Platyoides" species exist in southern Africa, Madagascar and Canary Islands. One species, "P. walteri", was introduced to Australia.

Genera

* "Boolathana" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Desognaphosa" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Doliomalus" Simon, 1897 — Chile
* "Fissarena" Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 — Australia
* "Hemicloeina" Simon, 1893 — Australia
* "Longrita" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Morebilus" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Olin" Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 — Sulawesi, Christmas Island
* "Plator" Simon, 1880 — China, India, Korea, Japan
* "Platorish" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Platyoides" O. P-Cambridge, 1890 — Africa, Madagascar
* "Pyrnus" Simon, 1880 — - Australia, New Caledoni
* "Rebilus" Simon, 1880 — - Australi
* "Tinytrema" Platnick, 2002 — - Australi
* "Trachycosmus" Simon, 1893 — Australia
* "Trachyspina" Platnick, 2002 — Australia
* "Trachytrema" Simon, 1909 — Australia
* "Trochanteria" Karsch, 1878 — South America

ee also

* List of Trochanteriidae species
* Spider families

References

*Platnick, N.I. (2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). "Bulletin of the AMNH" 271 [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/494/1/B271.pdf PDF (26Mb)] [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/494 Abstract] (with key to Australian species)
* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://www.americanarachnology.org/HiResGallery/dionyc_Platyoides_sp.html Picture of a "Platyoides sp." from South Africa]