Stenochilid Spiders

Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk.^[1] First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873,^[2] it now contains twelve described species in two genera.

Species

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:^[3][4]

Colopea Simon, 1893

• Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, Thailand
• Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 — China
• Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
• Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) — Philippines
• Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 — Bali
• Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
• Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — Fiji
• Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 — Borneo
• Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Vietnam
• Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea

Stenochilus O. P-Cambridge, 1870

• Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 — Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka
• Stenochilus hobsoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 — India
• Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — India

See also

• List of Stenochilidae species
• Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.

References

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