| Stenochilidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Superfamily: | Palpimanoidea |
| Family: | Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 14 species | |
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Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk.[1] First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873,[2] it now contains twelve described species in two genera.
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:[3][4]
Colopea Simon, 1893
- Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, Thailand
- Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 — China
- Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
- Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) — Philippines
- Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 — Bali
- Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
- Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — Fiji
- Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 — Borneo
- Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Vietnam
- Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
Stenochilus O. P-Cambridge, 1870
- Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 — Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka
- Stenochilus hobsoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 — India
- Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — India
See also
[edit]- List of Stenochilidae species
- Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.
References
[edit]- ^ Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
- ^ "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
- ^ Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2556).
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