Microstigmatidae is a small family of
spiders 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 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
''Ixamatus'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of s ...
''
Simon, 1887
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Kiama''
Main & Mascord, 1969
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Micromygale
''Micromygale'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae containing the sole species ''Micromygale diblemma''. The species was described in 1982 by Platnick and Forster and is found in Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panam ...
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Platnick & Forster, 1982
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Microstigmata
''Microstigmata'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae. All species are from South Africa.
Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:
*'' Microstigmata amatola'' Griswold, 1985 – South Africa
*'' Microst ...
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Strand, 1932
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Ministigmata
''Ministigmata'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of ...
''
Raven & Platnick, 1981
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Pseudonemesia
''Pseudonemesia'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use ...
''
Caporiacco, 1955
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Spelocteniza
''Spelocteniza'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of ...
''
Gertsch, 1982
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Tonton''
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
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Xamiatus
''Xamiatus'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of silk. ...
''
Raven, 1981
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Xenonemesia
''Xenonemesia'' is a genus of spiders in the family Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 25 described species in eight genera. They are small ground-dwelling and free-living spiders that make little use of s ...
''
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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