Titanoecidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) 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 (tarantulas and their cl ...

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

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

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago a ...

with five

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and more than 50

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worldwide. These are mostly dark-colored builders of "woolly" (

cribellate Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or o ...

) 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 ''Anuvinda'' is a genus of spiders in the family Titanoecidae Titanoecidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. It is fairly widespread in the New World and Eurasia with five genera and more than 5 ...

'' Lehtinen, 1967 – Asia *''

Goeldia ''Goeldia'' is a genus of spiders that occur in Central to South America. Species * ''Goeldia arnozoi'' (Mello-Leitão, 1924) (Brazil) * ''Goeldia chinipensis'' Leech, 1972 (Mexico) * ''Goeldia luteipes'' (Keyserling, 1891) (Brazil, Argentina) ...

'' Keyserling, 1891 – South America, Mexico *''

Nurscia ''Nurscia'' is a genus of spiders in the family Titanoecidae. It is a relatively widespread genus with species being found in both Europe and Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either conside ...

'' Simon, 1874 – Asia, Europe *''

Pandava The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) refers to the five legendary brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva—who are the central characters of the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. They are acknowledg ...

'' Lehtinen, 1967 – Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea *''

Titanoeca ''Titanoeca'' is a genus of spiders that occurs mainly in Eurasia, with three species found only in North America (''T. americana'', ''T. brunnea'', ''T. nigrella''). One species (''T. nivalis'') has a holarctic distribution, and ''T. guayaqui ...

'' 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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