Family OONOPIDAE Simon, 1890
Goblin Spiders
Compiler and date details
2012 - Drs Barbara Baehr & Robert Raven, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Valerie Todd Davies (including the Lycosidae by R.J. McKay), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction
Most oonopids live in litter; some are well sclerotised with a shield covering, or partly covering the abdomen; others are soft-bodied. Orchestina is found in foliage; it is soft bodied and has enlarged femora IV for jumping backwards. Ischnothyreus species have been found throughout north-eastern Queensland and on Murray Island, Torres Strait but none has been described. Baehr et al. (2012) established a new genus, Prethopalpus, for a group of Australasian species.
Diagnosis
Small haplogyne spiders with one pair of broad slit-like tracheal spiracles just behind pair of book-lung openings. Leg IV obviously longer than others; onychium present. 1–3 strong spines distally on proventral femur I, II present or absent. 2 claws; paired claws with two rows of teeth; female palpal claw absent. Small, 2-clawed, haplogyne spiders that have a pair of tracheal spiracles just behind the book-lungs. Six or less eyes. Colulus absent, sometimes represented by two setae. Cheliceral margins smooth. Female palp without a claw. Tarsal claws pectinate in double row. One trichobothrium on metatarsi, none on tarsi.
General References
Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S., Burger, M. & Thoma, M. 2012. The new Australasian Goblin Spider genus Prethopalpus (Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 369: 113 pp., 749 figs, 10 maps
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Oct-2020 | ARANEOMORPHAE | 27-Apr-2017 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 19-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 11-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |