Stenochilidae Explained

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

, 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. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49. 4. 579–584. https://web.archive.org/web/20051231000031/http://app.pan.pl/acta49/app49-579.pdf. dead. 2005-12-31.

Notes and References

1. Griswold. C.E.. Coddington. J.A.. Platnick. N.I.. Forster. R.R.. 1999. Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). Journal of Arachnology. 27. 53–63.
2. Book: Thorell, T.. 1873. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
3. Web site: Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873. World Spider Catalog. 2019-04-24. Natural History Museum Bern.
4. Platnick. N.I.. Shadab. M.U.. 1974. A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates. 2556.