Microstigmatidae is a small family of
spider
Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...
s with about 25 described species in eight 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 with other distantly related ones as funnel-web tarantulas) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) tha ...
in 1981. The subfamily
Pseudonemesiinae from the family
Ctenizidae
Ctenizidae is a small family of mygalomorph spiders that construct burrows with a cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation, and silk. They may be called trapdoor spiders, as are other, similar species, such as those of the families Liphistii ...
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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Kiama
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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
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Xenonemesia''
Goloboff, 1989
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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