Eumenophorinae
| Eumenophorinae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumenophorinae Pocock, 1897[1] |
| Genera | |
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The Eumenophorinae is a subfamily of tarantula spiders (family Theraphosidae). They are known from thirteen genera distributed across Africa, southwestern countries in Saudi Arabia, Madagascar and the associated islands.[2]
Distribution
At about 158-160 Mya, Gondwana split up and the Indo-Madagascan plate drifted away from the rest of the super-continent. At around 84-86 million years ago, India split from Madagascar and drifted into Eurasia (66-55 mya), to its current position. Therefore all fauna in Gondwana (such as the Eumenophorinae) would be distributed on all three land masses.[2]
Characteristics
The Eumenophorinae have stridulatory spike setae on the coxae of all legs, and a "comb" of stiffened setae on the palpal femur. In 2005 Richard Gallon described the monotypic genus Mascaraneus, which lacks the stridulatory spike setae.[2]
Genera
- Anoploscelus Pocock, 1897[3]
- Batesiella Pocock, 1903[3]
- Encyocrates Simon, 1892[3]
- Eumenophorus Pocock, 1897[3]
- Hysterocrates Simon, 1892[3]
- Loxomphalia Simon, 1889[3]
- Loxoptygus Simon, 1903[3]
- Mascaraneus Gallon, 2005[4]
- Monocentropus Pocock, 1897[3]
- Myostola Simon, 1903[3]
- Pelinobius Karsch, 1885 (as Citharischius Pocock, 1900)[3]
- Phoneyusa Karsch, 1884[3]
- Sahydroaraneus Mirza & Sanap, 2014[2]
References
- ↑ Raven, R.J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1–180. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
- 1 2 3 4 Mirza, Z.A.; Sanap, R.V. & Bhosale, H. (2014). "Preliminary review of Indian Eumenophorinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with description of a new genus and five new species from the Western Ghats". PLoS One 9 (2): e87928. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087928.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Schmidt, G. (2003). "8.6 Eumenophorinae Pocock, 1897". Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Hohenwarsleben: Westarp Wissenschaften. pp. 207–216. ISBN 978-3-89432-899-3.
- ↑ Gallon, R.C. (2005). "On a new genus and species of theraphosid spider from Serpent Island, Mauritius (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 175–178. Retrieved 2016-02-07.