Microstigmatidae is a small family of
spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s with about 38 described species in eleven genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of silk.
The family was removed from the family
Dipluridae
The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly related families) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chel ...
in 1981. The subfamily
Pseudonemesiinae from the family
Ctenizidae was also transferred into the Microstigmatidae.
Genera
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
recognized the following genera:
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Angka''
Raven & Schwendinger, 1995
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Envia''
Ott & Höfer, 2003
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Ixamatus''
Simon, 1887
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Main & Mascord, 1969
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Micromygale''
Platnick & Forster, 1982
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Microstigmata''
Strand, 1932
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Ministigmata''
Raven & Platnick, 1981
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Pseudonemesia''
Caporiacco, 1955
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Spelocteniza''
Gertsch, 1982
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Tonton''
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
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Xamiatus''
Raven, 1981
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Ott, R. & Höfer, H. (2003). ''Envia garciai'', a new genus and species of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazilian Amazonia. - ''Iheringia'' 93: 373–379
PDF* Indicatti, Rafael P.; Lucas, Sylvia M.; Ott, Ricardo & Brescovit, Antonio D. (2008): Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. ''Revista Brasileira de Zoologia'' 25(3): 529–546.
Mygalomorphae families
Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer
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