List of six-eyed spiders explained

Six-eyed spiders are spiders that, unlike most spider species, lack the principal pair of eyes, leaving them with only six eyes instead of the usual eight.^[1]

List

• Araneomorphae

• Haplogynae

• Scytodoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Drymusidae

• Periegopidae

• Scytodes^[2]

• Sicariidae^[3]

• Leptonetoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Leptonetidae

• Ochyroceratidae

• Telemidae—predominantly six-eyed, but some species with none.^[4]

• Pholcoidea

• Diguetidae—family of six-eyed spiders

• Pholcidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six.^[5]

• Pholcinae

• Belisana

• Belisana aliformis (at Wikispecies)^[6]

• Belisana huberi (at Wikispecies)^[7]

• Belisana lamellaris (at Wikispecies)^[8]

• Belisana zhangi (at Wikispecies)^[9]

• Khorata

• Khorata diaoluoshanensis (at Wikispecies) ^[10]

• Caponioidea

• Caponiidae—family with species with 8, 6, 4 and 2 eyes and some with a variable number of eyes

• Tetrablemmidae

• Dysderoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

• Dysderidae

• Oonopidae

• Orsolobidae

• Segestriidae

• Trogloraptoridae

• Entelegynae

• Archaeoidea

• Micropholcommatidae

• Micropholcommatinae

• Micropholcommatini

• Austropholcomma

• Austropholcomma walpole (at Wikispecies)^[11]

• Araneoidea

• Anapidae

• Comaroma

• Comaroma hatsushibai (at Wikispecies)^[12]

• Dictynoidea

• Cybaeidae

• Cybaeus

• Cybaeus yoshiakii (at Wikispecies)^[13]

• Dictynidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six.^[14]

Bibliography

• Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology. 215–222. Noxious Spider Bites. Davidovici, Batya B.. Wolf, Ronni . Jean Revuz . Jean-Claude Roujeau . Francisco Kerdel . Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore. Springer Science+Business Media. 2009. 978-3540793397. 10.1007/978-3-540-79339-7_23.
• Book: Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.. Forest Spiders of South East Asia: With a Revision of the Sac and Ground Spiders. 2001. Brill Publishers. 978-9004119598.
• Book: Eaton, Eric R.. Kaufman, Kenn. Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2007. 978-0618153107.
• Book: Filmer, Martin R.. Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide. Random House. 1991. 978-1868251889.
• Book: Rix, Mihael G.. Harvey, Mark S.. The Spider Family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): A Relimitation and Revision at the Generic Level. Pensoft Publishers. 2010. 978-9546425317.

External links

• Web site: Spider Eye Arrangements. Lynette. 23 October 2006. BugGuide. 16 May 2015.

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=KiD4CAAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+few+spider+families+with+only+6+eyes+lack+the+AM+eyes+altogether%22&pg=PA132 A Spider’s World: Senses and Behavior
2. Filmer (1991), p. 106.
3. Eaton & Kaufman (2007), p. 22.
4. Web site: Telemidae. Shapiro . Leo. Encyclopedia of Life. 16 May 2015.
5. Web site: Pholcidae. Shapiro. Leo . 16 May 2015. Encyclopedia of Life. 16 May 2015. Most pholcids have eight eyes, although some have only six..
6. & . 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [46, f. 1A-C, 2A-H]
7. • & . 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1D-F, 3A-G]
8. & . 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1G-I, 4A-F]
9. & . 2007. A new six-eyed pholcid spider (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Karst Tiankeng of Leye County, Guangxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32: 505-507. [505, f. 1-6]
10. • & . 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [52, f. 1J-L, 5A-G]
11. Rix & Harvey (2010), p. 33.
12. 2005: Two new six-eyed spiders of the genera Orchestina and Comaroma (Araneae, Oonopidae and Anapidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (A), 31: 37-43.
13. 1968. A new six-eyed spider of the genus Cybaeus. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 21: 31-33. [31, f. 1-8]
14. Web site: Dictynidae. Shapiro. Leo. Encyclopedia of Life. 16 May 2015. some species lack the anterior median eyes altogether .