List of six-eyed spiders

Six-eyed spiders are spiders that, unlike most spider species, have only six eyes instead of eight.^[1] The missing two eyes are those on the anterior median line.^[2]

List

This list is incomplete

• Araneomorphae

• Haplogynae

• Scytodoidea-superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Drymusidae
• Periegopidae
• Scytodes^[3]
• Sicariidae^[4]

• Leptonetoidea-superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Leptonetidae
• Ochyroceratidae
• Telemidae-predominantly six-eyed, but some species with none.^[5]

• Pholcoidea

• Diguetidae-family of six-eyed spiders
• Pholcidae-predominantly eight eyed, but some species with six.^[6]

• Pholcinae

• Belisana

• Belisana aliformis (at Wikispecies)^[7]
• Belisana huberi (at Wikispecies)^[8]
• Belisana lamellaris (at Wikispecies)^[9]
• Belisana zhangi (at Wikispecies)^[10]

• Khorata

• Khorata diaoluoshanensis (at Wikispecies) ^[11]

• Caponioidea

• Caponiidae-family with species with 8, 6, 4 and 2 eyes and some with a changing number of eyes
• Tetrablemmidae

• Dysderoidea-superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Dysderidae
• Oonopidae
• Orsolobidae
• Segestriidae
• Trogloraptoridae

• Entelegynae

• Archaeoidea

• Micropholcommatidae

• Micropholcommatinae

• Micropholcommatini

• Austropholcomma

• Austropholcomma walpole (at Wikispecies)^[12]

• Araneoidea

• Anapidae

• Comaroma

• Comaroma hatsushibai (at Wikispecies)^[13]

• Dictynoidea

• Cybaeidae

• Cybaeus

• Cybaeus yoshiakii (at Wikispecies)^[14]

• Dictynidae-predominantly eight eyed, but some species with six.^[15]

References

1. Davidovici & Wolf (2009), p. 215.
2. Deeleman-Reinhold (2001), p. 27.
3. Filmer (1991), p. 106.
4. Eaton & Kaufman (2007), p. 22.
5. Shapiro, Leo. "Telemidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
6. Shapiro, Leo (16 May 2015). "Pholcidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015. Most pholcids have eight eyes, although some have only six.
7. Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [46, f. 1A-C, 2A-H]
8. • Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1D-F, 3A-G]
9. Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1G-I, 4A-F]
10. Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2007. A new six-eyed pholcid spider (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Karst Tiankeng of Leye County, Guangxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32: 505-507. [505, f. 1-6]
11. • Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [52, f. 1J-L, 5A-G]
12. Rix & Harvey (2010), p. 33.
13. Ono, H. 2005: Two new six-eyed spiders of the genera Orchestina and Comaroma (Araneae, Oonopidae and Anapidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (A), 31: 37-43.
14. Yaginuma, T. 1968. A new six-eyed spider of the genus Cybaeus. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 21: 31-33. [31, f. 1-8]
15. Shapiro, Leo. "Dictynidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015. some species lack the anterior median eyes altogether

Bibliography

• Davidovici, Batya B.; Wolf, Ronni (2009). Jean Revuz, Jean-Claude Roujeau, Francisco Kerdel, Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore, eds. "Noxious Spider Bites". Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology (Springer Science+Business Media). ISBN 3540793399.
• Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L. (2001). Forest Spiders of South East Asia: With a Revision of the Sac and Ground Spiders. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9004119590.
• Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0618153101.
• Filmer, Martin R. (1991). Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide. Random House. ISBN 1868251888.
• Rix, Mihael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). The Spider Family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): A Relimitation and Revision at the Generic Level. Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 9546425311.

External links

• Lynette (23 October 2006). "Spider Eye Arrangements". BugGuide. Retrieved 16 May 2015.