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Family ANYPHAENIDAE Bertkau, 1878


Compiler and date details

Valerie Todd Davies (including the Lycosidae by R.J. McKay), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Introduction

Medium to large, 2-clawed spiders with claw tufts composed of lamelliform setae. Tracheal spiracle a short distance forward of spinnerets (tracheal tubes extend into cephalothorax). Colulus present. Eyes in two rows. Trichobothria in a double row on tibiae, a single row on metatarsi, and a double row on tarsi. In Australia Amaurobioides, known from coastal Tasmania and South Australia, lives in a nest of tough white silk in crevices and holes in rocks near high-tide mark. In Amaurobioides the trochanters are un-notched and the compact eye group is on a low projecting mound.

 

Diagnosis

Medium to large (4–30mm) entelegyne intertidal or littoral spiders. Eyes: 8; group about 0.5-0.7 of headwidth; in two conservatively curved rows. Cheliceral margins with 3 or more teeth; laterally with condyle; fangs transverse, chelicerae porrect. Maxillae longer than wide; straight or medially constricted. Labium longer than wide; rectangular or lanceolate. Single broad tracheal spiracle remote from spinnerets. Spinnerets all about same length; colulus small.
Legs prograde; no retrocoxal hymen on leg I . 2 claws; with denseclaw tufts. Scopula only on tarsi and metatarsi I. II.
Male palp with retrolateral tibial apophysis.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020 20-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)