Eutichuridae

Eutichuridae
Cheiracanthium mildei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Eutichuridae
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Genera

See text.

Diversity[2]
c. 12 genera, 341 species

Eutichuridae is a family of araneomorph spiders.

The largest genus currently recognized as belonging to this family is Cheiracanthium, which has previously been placed in both the Clubionidae and the Miturgidae.

Taxonomy

The group was originally described as the subfamily Eutichurinae of the family Miturgidae by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. The monophyly of the group is described as "reasonably uncontroversial", but it has been placed in either the Miturgidae or the Clubionidae. An analysis by Martín J. Ramírez in 2014 suggested that it was better considered as a separate family.[3]

Genera

As of September 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Family Eutichuridae Lehtinen, 1967", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-09-29
  2. "Currently valid spider genera and species", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, archived from the original on November 3, 2015, retrieved 2015-10-04
  3. Ramírez, Martín J. (2014), The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 390, pp. 340–341


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