Family MICROPHOLCOMMATIDAE Hickman, 1944
Compiler and date details
2011 - Helen M. Smith
Valerie Todd Davies, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Micropholcommatidae Hickman, 1944.
- Rix, M.G. & Harvey, M.S. 2010. The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida, Araneae, Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. ZooKeys 36: 1-321
Introduction
The Micropholcommatidae are minute, 3-clawed spiders without book-lungs. They build small irregular webs. Much information on the family has recently been contributed in publications by Rix et al., including a molecular phylogeny of the family (Rix, Harvey & Roberts 2008), and a major generic level revisionary study (Rix & Harvey 2010).
Diagnosis
Minute to tiny (up to 2mm) litter-dwelling entelegyne spiders. 6 or 8 eyes. Abdomen broadly oval, or circular; laterally normal, or high; laterally with 3 or more extensive scute; dorsal scute covers all or most of dorsum, or with small, scattered sclerotized spots; ventral scute covers outer edges of book lung openings; pedicel entirely sclerotised and inserted at ventral scutum. Spinnerets encircled by sclerotised ring. Tarsi about twice as long as metatarsi; palp on female entire, reduced or absent. 3 claws.
Diagnosis References
General References
Rix, M.G, Harvey, M.S. & Roberts, J.D. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1031-1048
Rix, M.G. & Harvey, M.S. 2010. The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida, Araneae, Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. ZooKeys 36: 1-321
History of changes
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| 15-Oct-2020 | 20-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 25-Jul-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |