Stenochilidae

Taxobox
name = Stenochilidae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
superfamilia = Palpimanoidea
familia = Stenochilidae
familia_authority = Thorell, 1873
diversity_link = List of Stenochilidae species
diversity = 2 genera, 12 species
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The Stenochilidae are a spider family with twelve described species in two genera. All species produce ecribellate silk (Griswold "et al.", 1999).

Distribution

The Stenochilidae occur in Southeast Asia.

pecies

"Colopea" Simon, 1893
* "Colopea laeta" (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar, Thailand)
* "Colopea malayana" Lehtinen, 1982 (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore)
* "Colopea pusilla" (Simon, 1893) (Philippines)
* "Colopea romantica" Lehtinen, 1982 (Bali)
* "Colopea silvestris" Lehtinen, 1982 (New Guinea)
* "Colopea tuberculata" Platnick & Shadab, 1974 (Fiji)
* "Colopea unifoveata" Lehtinen, 1982 (Borneo)
* "Colopea virgata" Lehtinen, 1982 (Thailand, Vietnam)
* "Colopea xerophila" Lehtinen, 1982 (New Guinea)

"Stenochilus" O. P-Cambridge, 1870
* "Stenochilus crocatus" Simon, 1884 (Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka)
* "Stenochilus hobsoni" O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 (India)
* "Stenochilus scutulatus" Platnick & Shadab, 1974 (India)

ee also

* List of Stenochilidae species
* Spider families

References

*Platnick, N.I., Shadab, M.U. (1974). A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae). "American Museum novitates" 2556 [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5448/1/N2556.pdf PDF] - [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/5448 Abstract]
* Griswold, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Platnick, N.I. and Forster, R.R. (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]
*Penney, D. 2004. Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids. "Acta Palaeontologica Polonica" 49(4): 579–584. [http://app.pan.pl/acta49/app49-579.pdf PDF]