Tengellidae

Taxobox
name = Tengellid spiders


image_caption = "Titiotus" sp. from California
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
zoosectio = Entelegynae
superfamilia = Tengelloidea
familia = Tengellidae
familia_authority = Dahl, 1908
diversity_link = List of Tengellidae species
diversity = 8 genera, 37 species
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subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Lauricius"
"Titiotus"

The tengellid spiders (family "Tengellidae") include eight genera and a little over 30 species worldwide. The family is confined to the New World, with two monotypic genera occurring in and Madagascar and New Zealand, respectively. Like most spiders, they have eight eyes. The characters defining the family are technical and there are still some disagreements as to its size and placement within spider classification. According to Griswold (1993), the family is polyphyletic. This is another of the families removed from the catchall family Clubionidae over the last 20 or so years.

Some of these strange spiders look like a cross between a crab spider and a sac spider, as in the American genus "Lauricius".

Genera

* "Anachemmis" Chamberlin, 1919 (USA, Mexico; 5 species)
* "Calamistrula" Dahl, 1901 (Madagascar; 1 species)
* "Haurokoa" Forster & Wilton, 1973 (New Zealand; 1 species)
* "Lauricius" Simon, 1888 (USA, Mexico; 2 species)
* "Liocranoides" Keyserling, 1881 (USA; 5 species)
* "Socalchemmis" Platnick & Ubick, 2001 (USA, Mexico; 17 species)
* "Tengella" Dahl, 1901 (South America, Costa Rica, Mexico; 3 species)
* "Titiotus" Simon, 1897 (Brazil, USA; 3 species)

ee also

* List of Tengellidae species
* Spider families

References

* (1993) Investigations into the phylogeny of the lycosoid spiders and their kin (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosoidea). "Smithson. Contrib. Zool." 539: 1-39.
*, aut|Coddington, J.A., aut|Platnick, N.I. & aut|Forster, R.R. (1999). Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). "J. Arachnol." 27: 53-63.

External links

* [http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Araneae.html Arachnology Home Pages: Araneae]
* [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html Platnick, N.I. 2003. World Spider Catalog]