Lamponidae is a 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 first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1893.
It contains about 200 described species in 23 genera,
most of which are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
, with the genus ''Centrocalia'' endemic to
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
, and two ''Lampona'' species (''L. cylindrata'', ''L. murina'') also occurring in
New Zealand
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where they are commonly known as '
white-tailed spiders'. ''Lampona papua'' is endemic to
New Guinea
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, where two otherwise Australian species (''Centrothele mutica'', ''Lamponova wau'') also occur.
Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan'
Biology Catalog
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Centrothelinae Platnick, 2000
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Asadipus'' Simon, 1897 (Australia)
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Bigenditia'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Centrocalia'' Platnick, 2000 (New Caledonia)
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Centroina'' Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
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Centrothele'' L. Koch, 1873 (Australia)
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Centsymplia'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Graycassis'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Longepi'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Notsodipus'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Prionosternum'' Dunn, 1951 (Australia)
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Queenvic'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponinae Simon, 1893
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Lampona'' Thorell, 1869 (Australia)
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Lamponata'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponega'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponella'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponicta'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponina'' Strand, 1913 (Australia)
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Lamponoides'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Lamponova'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia, New Zealand)
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Lamponusa'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Platylampona'' Platnick, 2004 (Australia)
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Pseudolamponinae Platnick, 2000
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Paralampona'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
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Pseudolampona'' Platnick, 2000 (Australia)
See also
*
List of Lamponidae species
References
* A relimitation and revision of the Australasian ground spider family Lamponidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the AMNH 245
PDF (56Mb)Abstract
Further reading
* Platnick, N.I. (2004). On a Third Group of Flattened Ground Spiders from Australia (Araneae, Lamponidae). ''American Museum Novitates'' 3462
PDF(''Platylampona'')
External links
Spiders of Australia
Spiders of New Zealand
Araneomorphae families
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