Flexicrurum

Flexicrurum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ochyroceratidae
Genus: Flexicrurum
Tong & Li, 2007
Species

See text.

Diversity
3 species
Location of Hainan, China

Flexicrurum is a genus of small spiders from China, in the family Ochyroceratidae. It is similar to the genera Althepus and Leclercera. Males are generally smaller than 2 mm; females are unknown. The three described species were found in caves of Hainan Island.[1]

Name

The genus name is from Latin flex "curved", and crur "leg", and refers to the inner turned palpal tibia of the male.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Tong & Li 2007

References


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