- Nemesiidae
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Funnel-web tarantulas
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous-Recent
Calisoga sp. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Mygalomorphae Infraorder: Tuberculotae Superfamily: Nemesioidea Family: Nemesiidae
Simon, 1892Subfamily: Nemesoidea Genera see text
Diversity 41 genera, > 300 species 
Acanthogonatus francki
The Nemesiidae are a spider family of the infraorder Mygalomorphae, and the only member of the superfamily Nemesioidea[1]. They were formerly considered part of the Dipluridae family.[2]
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Description
Nemesiidae are relatively large, brown, elongated spiders with robust legs.[3] Female Atmetochilus can grow over 4 cm in body length.
These spiders live in burrows. Some finish these with a hinged door. They often push this door up and wait for passing prey. When they catch it they try not to leave their burrow. Sometimes a burrow has a side tube. It is not certain whether Sinopesa builds burrows.[4]
Genera
- Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880 — South America
- Aname L. Koch, 1873 — Australia
- Atmetochilus Simon, 1887 — Burma
- Brachythele Ausserer, 1871 — USA, Europe
- Calisoga Chamberlin, 1937 — USA
- Chaco Tullgren, 1905 — South America
- Chenistonia Hogg, 1901 — Australia
- Chilelopsis Goloboff, 1995 — Chile
- Damarchus Thorell, 1891 — India, Southeast Asia
- Diplothelopsis Tullgren, 1905 — Argentina
- Entypesa Simon, 1902 — Madagascar, South Africa
- Flamencopsis Goloboff, 1995 — South America, South Africa
- Hermacha Simon, 1889 — Brazil
- Hermachura Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
- Iberesia Decae & Cardoso, 2006 — Majorca, Spain, Portugal
- Ixamatus Simon, 1887 — Australia
- Kwonkan Main, 1983 — Australia
- Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
- Longistylus Indicatti & Lucas, 2005 — Brazil
- Lycinus Thorell, 1894 — Chile, Argentina
- Merredinia Main, 1983 — Australia
- Mexentypesa Raven, 1987 — Mexico
- Namea Raven, 1984 — Australia
- Nemesia Audouin, 1826 — Europe, Africa, Cuba, China
- Neostothis Vellard, 1925 — Brazil
- Pionothele Purcell, 1902 — South Africa
- Prorachias Mello-Leitão, 1924 — Brazil
- Psalistopoides Mello-Leitão, 1934 — Brazil
- Pselligmus Simon, 1892 — Brazil
- Pseudoteyl Main, 1985 — Australia
- Pycnothele Chamberlin, 1917 — South America
- Rachias Simon, 1892 — Brazil, Argentina
- Raveniola Zonstein, 1987 — Turkey to China, Russia
- Sinopesa Raven & Schwendinger, 1995 — China, Ryukyu Islands
- Spiroctenus Simon, 1889 — South Africa
- Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — New Zealand, Australia
- Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 — South America
- Teyl Main, 1975 — Australia
- Teyloides Main, 1985 — Australia
- Xamiatus Raven, 1981 — Australia
- Yilgarnia Main, 1986 — Australia
See also
- List of Nemesiidae species
- Spider families
Footnotes
- ^ Raven, R.J. 1985. The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
- ^ Platnick 2009
- ^ Find-a-spider Guide
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000
References
- Raven, R.J. (1985): The spider Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180.
- Selden, P.A. (2001): Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures. Palaeontology 44: 695-729. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00199
- Raven, R.J. (1987): A new mygalomorph spider genus from Mexico (Nemesiinae, Nemesiidae, Arachnida). J. Arachnol. 14: 357-362. PDF (Mexentypesa)
- Pesarini, C. (1988): Revision of the genus Pycnothele (Araneae, Nemesiidae). J. Arachnol. 16: 281-293. PDF
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Rafael P. Indicatti & Sylvia M. Lucas (2005): Description of a new genus of Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 1088: 11-16. PDF (Longistylus)
- 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.
External links
- Photographs of three species (Aname sp., Ixamatus sp. and Namea salanitri)
- Pictures of Acanthogonus francki
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