Micropholcommatidae
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The Micropholcommatidae are a spider family with 33 described species in eight genera.
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[edit] Distribution
Almost all genera are endemic to New Zealand and Australia, with two genera (Teutoniella, Tricellina) found in South America.
[edit] Taxonomy
The families Micropholcommatidae and Textricellidae were synonymized with the Symphytognathidae by Forster (1959), but again split from it in 1977[1]. Later they were considered to be only one family, namely Micropholcommatidae, by Platnick & Forster (1986). Although they were synonymized with Anapidae by Schütt (2003), this move was not followed by most authors. The Micropholcommatidae have been assigned to Palpimanoidea, Archaeoidea, and at the latest Araneoidea[2]. The whole group is clearly in need of extensive systematic revision[3].
[edit] Genera
- Eterosonycha Butler, 1932 — Australia
- Micropholcomma Crosby & Bishop, 1927 — Australia
- Olgania Hickman, 1979 — Australia
- Parapua Forster, 1959 — New Zealand
- Pua Forster, 1959 — New Zealand
- Teutoniella Brignoli, 1981 — Brazil, Chile
- Textricella Hickman, 1945 — New Zealand, Australia
- Tricellina Forster & Platnick, 1989 — Chile
[edit] Fossil species
In 2007 the first fossil species of this family was described from Early Eocene amber (about 53 million years ago), and classified in subfamily Textricellinae. In contrast to living species it was found in the Northern Hemisphere.[3]
- Cenotextricella Penney, 2007
- Cenotextricella simoni Penney, 2007
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[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Forster, R.R. (1959): The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269–329.
- Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. (1977): A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Am. Mus. Novit. 2619: 1-29. PDF
- Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. (1986): On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea). American Museum Novitates 2854: 1–9. PDF
- Schütt, K. (2003): Phylogeny of Symphytognathidae. Zoologica Scripta 32: 129–151.
- Griswold, C.E., Ramírez, M.J., Coddington, J.A. & Platnick, N.I. (2005): Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 56 Suppl. 2: 1–324.
- Penney, David; Dierick, Manuel; Cnudde, Veerle; Masschaele, Bert; Vlassenbroeck, Jelle; van Hoorebeke, Luc & Jacobs, Patric (2007): First fossil Micropholcommatidae (Araneae), imaged in Eocene Paris amber using X-Ray Computed Tomography. Zootaxa 1612: 47-53. PDF Abstract
