Stenochilidae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Palpimanoidea
Familia: Stenochilidae
Genera: Colopea – Stenochilus
Name

Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873
References

Zheng, G.; Marusik, Y.M.; Li, S. 2009: Discovery of Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873 (Araneae) in China, with description of a new species from Yunnan. Revue suisse de zoologie, 116(2): 303–311. [abstract only seen]

Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk.[1] First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873,[2] it now contains twelve described species in two genera.
Species

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:[3][4]

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
Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.

References

Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63.
Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
"Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2556).