Paratropididae, also known as bald-legged spiders, is a small family of
mygalomorph 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 1889.
They are more closely related to
tarantulas and allies, than to most other 'true' spiders (
araneomorphs).
Genera
, the
World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:
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Anisaspis''
Simon, 1892 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Anisaspoides''
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – Brazil
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Paratropis''
Simon, 1889 – South America
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Stormtropis''
Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, 2019
References
Mygalomorphae families
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