Trochanteriidae
| Trochanteriidae | |
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| Platyoides species | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Opisthothelae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879[1] |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity[2] | |
| 19 genera, 152 species | |
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The Trochanteriidae are a spider family with about 150 species in 19 genera.
Distribution
Most genera are endemic to Australia.
Doliomalus is endemic to Chile, Trochanteria to Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
Olin occurs on Sulawesi and Christmas Island, Plator species live in China, India, Korea and Japan.
Platyoides species exist in southern and eastern Africa, Madagascar and the Canary Islands. One species, P. walteri, was introduced to Australia.
Genera
As of October 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]
- Boolathana Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Desognanops Platnick, 2008 – Australia
- Desognaphosa Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Doliomalus Simon, 1897 – Chile
- Fissarena Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 – Australia
- Hemicloeina Simon, 1893 – Australia
- Longrita Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Morebilus Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Olin Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Sulawesi, Christmas Island
- Plator Simon, 1880 – China, India, Korea, Japan
- Platorish Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Platyoides O. P-Cambridge, 1890 – Africa, the Canary Islands, Madagascar
- Pyrnus Simon, 1880 – Australia, New Caledonia
- Rebilus Simon, 1880 – Australia
- Tinytrema Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Trachycosmus Simon, 1893 – Australia
- Trachyspina Platnick, 2002 – Australia
- Trachytrema Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Trochanteria Karsch, 1878 – South America
See also
References
- 1 2 "Family: Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-10-30
- ↑ "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-10-30
- Platnick, N.I. (2002). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)." Bulletin of the AMNH 271. PDF (26Mb) Abstract (with key to Australian species)
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