Stenochilidae
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Stenochilidae is a
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
n araneomorph
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 that produce ecribellate silk. First described by
Tamerlan Thorell Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
in 1873, it now contains twelve described species in two genera.


Species

, 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 ...
accepts the following genera and species: '' 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 *


References

Araneomorphae families {{Araneomorphae-stub