Titanoecidae 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 ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

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

Pekka T. Lehtinen Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnology, arachnologist and taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated. Biography Lehtinen was born on 5 April ...

in 1967. It is fairly widespread in the

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and

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with five

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and more than 50

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

worldwide. These are mostly dark-colored builders of "woolly" ( cribellate) silk webs. Several species are found at relatively high altitudes in mountain ranges and may be very common in such habitats.

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, 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: *'' Anuvinda'' Lehtinen, 1967 – Asia *'' Goeldia'' Keyserling, 1891 – South America, Mexico *'' Nurscia'' Simon, 1874 – Asia, Europe *''

Pandava The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, aɳɖɐʋᵊ IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva, who are central figures of the Hindu epic ''Mahabhara ...

'' Lehtinen, 1967 – Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea *'' Titanoeca'' Thorell, 1870 – Asia, North America, Europe, Ecuador, Algeria

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Arachnology Home Pages: Araneae
Araneomorphae families Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen {{Titanoecidae-stub

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