- Microstigmatidae
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Microstigmatidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Mygalomorphae Superfamily: Mecicobothrioidea Family: Microstigmatidae
Raven and Platnick, 1981Genera Envia
Micromygale
Microstigmata
Ministigmata
Pseudonemesia
Spelocteniza
XenonemesiaDiversity 7 genera, 15 species 
The Microstigmatidae are a small spider family with fifteen described species in seven genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of silk.
The family was removed form the family Dipluridae in 1981. The subfamily Pseudonemesiinae from the Ctenizidae family was also transferred into the Microstigmatidae.
Species
Subfamilies are according to Joel Hallan.[1]
- Micromygalinae Platnick & Forster, 1982
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- Micromygale Platnick & Forster, 1982
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- Micromygale diblemma Platnick & Forster, 1982 — Panama
- Microstigmatinae Roewer,
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- Envia Ott and Höfer, 2003
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- Envia garciai Ott and Höfer, 2003 (Brazil)
- Microstigmata Strand, 1932 — South Africa
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- Microstigmata amatola Griswold, 1985
- Microstigmata geophila (Hewitt, 1916)
- Microstigmata lawrencei Griswold, 1985
- Microstigmata longipes (Lawrence, 1938)
- Microstigmata ukhahlamba Griswold, 1985
- Microstigmata zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938)
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- Ministigmata Raven & Platnick, 1981
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- Ministigmata minuta Raven & Platnick, 1981 — Brazil
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- Pseudonemesia Caporiacco,
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- Pseudonemesia kochalkai Raven & Platnick, 1981 — Colombia
- Pseudonemesia parva Caporiacco, 1955 — Venezuela
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- Spelocteniza Gertsch, 1982
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- Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982 — Ecuador
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- Xenonemesia Goloboff, 1989
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- Xenonemesia araucaria Indicatti et al., 2008 — Brazil
- Xenonemesia otti Indicatti, Lucas & Brescovit, 2007 — Brazil
- Xenonemesia platensis Goloboff, 1989 — Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
See also
- List of Microstigmatidae species
- Spider families
References
- Ott, R. & Höfer, H. (2003). Envia garciai, a new genus and species of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazilian Amazonia. - Iheringia 93: 373-379. PDF
- Indicatti, Rafael P.; Lucas, Sylvia M.; Ott, Ricardo & Brescovit, Antonio D. (2008): Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(3): 529-546.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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