Liocranidae
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| Liocranum rupicola | |
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| Family: | Liocranidae Simon, 1897
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Agroeca | |
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| 30 genera, > 150 species | |
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Liocranid sac spiders consist of about 160 species of wandering spiders in 30 or so genera. The best known are those in the Holarctic genus Agroeca. Various genera of rather obscure spiders are included in the family, which still lacks a diagnosis. Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. The females apparently live in animal burrows and the males wander and are often caught in pitfall traps.
Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
- Cybaeodes Simon, 1878 (Mediterranean)
- Donuea Strand, 1932 (Madagascar)
- Hesperocranum Ubick & Platnick, 1991 (USA)
- Heterochemmis F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900 (Mexico)
- Itatsina Kishida, 1930 (China, Korea, Japan)
- Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Myanmar, Thailand)
- Laudetia Gertsch, 1941 (Dominica)
- Liocraninae Simon, 1897
- Apostenus Westring, 1851 (Africa, Europe, North America)
- Argistes Simon, 1897 (Namibia, Sri Lanka)
- Coryssiphus Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
- Liocranoeca Wunderlich, 1999 (USA, Europe, Russia)
- Liocranum L. Koch, 1866 (Cuba, Europe to Georgia, Mediterranean, New Guinea)
- Liparochrysis Simon, 1909 (Australia)
- Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Mediterranean, Central Asia, Africa)
- Mesobria Simon, 1897 (St. Vincent)
- Montebello Hogg, 1914 (Australia)
- Neoanagraphis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 (USA, Mexico)
- Paratus Simon, 1898 (Sri Lanka)
- Plynnon Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Borneo, Sumatra)
- Rhaeboctesis Simon, 1897 (Africa)
- Sagana Thorell, 1875 (Europe to Georgia)
- Scotina Menge, 1873 (Europe, Algeria, Russia, Malta)
- Sesieutes Simon, 1897 (southern Asia)
- Sphingius Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)
- Sudharmia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Sumatra)
- Teutamus Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)
- Agraecina Simon, 1932 (Western Mediterranean, Romania, Canary Islands)
- Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Holarctic)
- Andromma Simon, 1893 (Africa)
- Brachyanillus Simon, 1913 (Spain, Algeria)
See also
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
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