Paratropididae
Encyclopedia
The baldlegged spiders (Paratropididae) are a small spider
family with eight species. They are related to tarantulas.
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
family with eight species. They are related to tarantulas.
Species
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan.http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Paratropididae.txt- Glabropelmatinae Raven, 1985
- Melloina Brignoli, 1985
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- Melloina gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) (VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
) - Melloina rickwesti Raven, 1999 (PanamaPanamaPanama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
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- Melloina gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) (Venezuela
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- Paratropidinae Simon, 1889
- Anisaspis Simon, 1891
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- Anisaspis tuberculata Simon, 1891 (St. VincentSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
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- Anisaspis tuberculata Simon, 1891 (St. Vincent
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- Anisaspoides F. O. P-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English arachnologist. He is often confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge , who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. Pickard-Cambridge picked up his enthusiasm for the study of spiders.-Life:F. O. Pickard-Cambridge was born in...
, 1896
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- Anisaspoides gigantea F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1896 (BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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- Anisaspoides gigantea F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1896 (Brazil
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- Paratropis Simon, 1889
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- Paratropis papilligera F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1896 (Brazil)
- Paratropis sanguinea Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Brazil)
- Paratropis scruposa Simon, 1889 (PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
) - Paratropis seminermis Caporiacco, 1955 (Venezuela)
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