Trechaleidae

Taxobox
name = Trechaleidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
superfamilia = Lycosoidea
familia = Trechaleidae
familia_authority = Simon, 1890
diversity_link = List of Trechaleidae species
diversity = 15 genera, 75 species
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The Trechaleidae are a spider family with 75 described species in 15 genera.

Distribution

Almost all species in this family live in Central and South America. Only "Shinobius orientalis" is endemic to Japan.

Genera

* "Amapalea" (Brazil)
* "Barrisca" Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 (South America)
* "Demelodos" Mello-Leitão, 1943 (Brazil)
* "Dossenus" Simon, 1898 (South America)
* "Dyrines" Simon, 1903 (South America)
* "Enna" O. P-Cambridge, 1897 (Mexico to Venezuela)
* "Heidrunea" Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 (Brazil)
* "Hesydrus" Simon, 1898 (Central and South America)
* "Magnichela" (Brazil)
* "Neoctenus" Simon, 1897 (South America)
* "Paradossenus" F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903 (South America)
* "Paratrechalea" Carico, 2005 (South America)
* "Rhoicinus" Simon, 1898 (South America)
* "Shinobius" Yaginuma, 1991 (Japan)
* "Syntrechalea" F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1902 (Central America)
* "Trechalea" Thorell, 1869 (USA to Peru)
* "Trechaleoides" Carico, 2005 (South America)

ee also

* List of Trechaleidae species
* Spider families

References

* Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. "J. Arachnol." 22: 54-59. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v22_n1/JoA_v22_p54.pdf PDF]
* Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. "J. Arachnol." 21: 226-257. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v21_n3/JoA_v21_p226.pdf PDF]