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Family DESIDAE Pocock, 1895


Compiler and date details

2012 - Updated by Dr Robert Raven, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with families by Dr Barbara Baehr, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, and Dr Helen Smith, Australian Museum, Sydney, as indicated for each of these.

Introduction

Presently, this is a very heterogenus group including the marine or intertidal spider genus Desis, a genus with a very little modified morphology but also includes the genera Laestrygones and Toxops which have very strongly modified eyes

 

Diagnosis

Desids are one of the most heterogeneous spider families. Three subfamilies, Ixeuticinae, Desinae, and Matachiinae, and the unplaced Pitonga are here recognised. . All desids have 3 claws, may be cribellate or not, and may have two more or less slightly curved rows or the posterior row strongly recurved.

 

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)
05-Jun-2014 DESIDAE Pocock, 1895 04-Jun-2014 REVIEWED Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Oct-2020 20-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)