Family of spiders
Orsolobidae is a six-eyed spider family with about 180 described species in thirty genera . It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1965, and was raised to family status from "Dysderidae " in 1985.[ 1]
Genera
Most genera are endemic to New Zealand and the Australian region, but several genera occur in southern Africa [ 2] South America .[ 3] [update] World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[ 4] [ 5]
Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987 — South Africa, MalawiAnopsolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandAscuta Forster, 1956 — New ZealandAustralobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — AustraliaAzanialobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987 — South AfricaBasibulbus Ott, Platnick, Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013 Bealeyia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandCalculus Purcell, 1910 — South AfricaChileolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — ChileCornifalx Hickman, 1979 — AustraliaDugdalea Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandDuripelta Forster, 1956 — New ZealandFalklandia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — Falkland Is.Hickmanolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — AustraliaLosdolobus Platnick & Brescovit, 1994 — Argentina, BrazilMallecolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — ChileMaoriata Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandOrongia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandOrsolobus Simon, 1893 — Chile, ArgentinaOsornolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — ChileParalobus Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandPounamuella Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandSubantarctia Forster, 1955 — New ZealandTangata Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandTasmanoonops Hickman, 1930 — AustraliaTautukua Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandTurretia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandWaiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandWaipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New ZealandWiltonia Forster & Platnick, 1985 — New Zealand
See also
References
^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 181 . ^ Griswold, C.E.; Platnick, N.I. (1987). "On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea)" (PDF) . American Museum Novitates (2892). ^ Platnick, N.I.; Brescovit, A.D. (1994). "A new genus of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) from Brazil" (PDF) . American Museum Novitates (3112). ^ "Family: Orsolobidae Cooke, 1965" . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22 .^ Chousou-Polydouri, Natalia; Carmichael, Anthea; Szűts, Tamás; Saucedo, Alma; Gillespie, Rosemary; Griswold, Charles; Wood, Hannah M. (February 2019). "The biogeography of the spider family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea) on Wiley Online Library" . Journal of Biogeography . 46 (2): 332– 342. doi :10.1111/jbi.13487 . S2CID 92283671 .
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