Palpimanidae

Taxobox


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
superfamilia = Palpimanoidea
familia = Palpimanidae
familia_authority = Thorell, 1870
diversity_link = List of Palpimanidae species
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. [Platnick 1975] . All species produce ecribellate silk [Griswold "et al." 1999] . 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. [ [http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5197/palpimanidae.html ARACNIS - Palpimanidae ] ]

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 [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Palpimanidae.txt 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

ee also

* List of Palpimanidae species
* Spider families

References

* (1975): A revision of the palpimanid spiders of the new subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimandae). "American Museum novitates" 2562. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2755/1/N2562.pdf PDF] - [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/2755 Abstract]
* (1999): Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). "Journal of Arachnology" 27: 53-63. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0053.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (1978): A new Otiothops from Colombia (Araneae, Palpimanidae). "J. Arachnol." 5: 179-180. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v5_n2/JoA_v5_p179.pdf PDF] ("O. kochalkai")
* (1985): On the Chilean spiders of the family Palpimanidae (Arachnida, Araneae). "J. Arachnol." 13: 399-400. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v13_n3/JoA_v13_p399.pdf PDF]
* (1999): On the genera of the spider subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimanidae). "American Museum novitates" 3257. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/3099/1/N3257.pdf PDF] - [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3099 Abstract]
* (2002): Palpimanid spiders from Guyana: New species of the genera "Fernandezina" and "Otiothops" (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Otiothopinae). "Iheringia, Sér. Zool." 92: 3. [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&pid=S0073-47212002000300002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en PDF] - [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0073-47212002000300002&script=sci_arttext HTML] - DOI|10.1590/S0073-47212002000300002

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5197/palpimanidae.html Picture of "Palpimanus gibbulus"]