Titanoecidae
| Titanoecidae | |
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| Female Pandava laminata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Opisthothelae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Titanoecidae Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity[2] | |
| 5 genera, 50+ species | |
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| Egypt omitted from the map | |
Titanoecidae is a spider family with five genera and more than 50 species worldwide. The family is fairly widespread in the New World and Eurasia. Once part of the family Amaurobiidae, these are mostly dark-colored builders of wooly (cribellate) silk webs. The main genus is Titanoeca. Several species are found at relatively high altitudes in mountain ranges and may be very common in such habitats.
Genera
As of January 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]
- Anuvinda Lehtinen, 1967 – India, Nepal, China, Thailand, Laos
- Goeldia Keyserling, 1891 – Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela to Argentina, including Peru and Brazil
- Nurscia Simon, 1874 – Europe, Egypt, Central Asia, Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
- Pandava Lehtinen, 1967 – widespread from East Africa through South Asia to the Marquesas Islands; introduced into Europe
- Titanoeca Thorell, 1870 – widespread in the Holarctic south to India
See also
References
- 1 2 "Family Family: Titanoecidae Lehtinen,1967", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2016-01-13
- ↑ "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2016-01-13
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