Trochanteriidae
Encyclopedia
The Trochanteriidae are a spider
family with 149 species in 18 genera.
.
Doliomalus is endemic to Chile
, Trochanteria to Argentina
, Paraguay
and Brazil
.
Olin occurs on Sulawesi
and Christmas Island
, Plator
species live in China
, India
, Korea
and Japan
.
Platyoides species exist in southern Africa
, Madagascar
and Canary Islands
. One species, P. walteri, was introduced to Australia.
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 149 species in 18 genera.
Distribution
Most genera are endemic to AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Doliomalus is endemic to Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, Trochanteria to Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Paraguay
Paraguay
Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
and Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , 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...
.
Olin occurs on Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
and Christmas Island
Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands....
, Plator
Plator
Plator the Illyrian was brother to Gentius and it is assumed that he was killed because he wanted to marry Etuta in 169 BC. She was the daughter of Monunius and was married to Gentius himself....
species live in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Platyoides species exist in southern Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
and Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
. One species, P. walteri, was introduced to Australia.
Genera
- Boolathana PlatnickNorman I. PlatnickNorman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D...
, 2002 — Australia - Desognaphosa Platnick, 2002 — Australia
- Doliomalus SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
, 1897 — Chile - Fissarena Henschel, Davies & Dickman, 1995 — Australia
- Hemicloeina Simon, 1893 — Australia
- Longrita Platnick, 2002 — Australia
- Morebilus Platnick, 2002 — Australia
- Olin Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 — Sulawesi, Christmas Island
- Plator Simon, 1880 — China, India, Korea, Japan
- Platorish Platnick, 2002 — Australia
- PlatyoidesPlatyoidesPlatyoides is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Trochanteriidae and found in sub-Saharan Africa and its islands, Madagascar, Réunion, Aldabra and the Canary Islands....
O. P-CambridgeOctavius Pickard-CambridgeThe Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...
, 1890 — Africa, Madagascar - Pyrnus Simon, 1880 — - Australia, New Caledonia
- Rebilus Simon, 1880 — - Australia
- Tinytrema Platnick, 2002 — - Australia
- Trachycosmus Simon, 1893 — Australia
- Trachyspina Platnick, 2002 — Australia
- Trachytrema Simon, 1909 — Australia
- Trochanteria KarschFriedrich KarschFerdinand Karsch or Karsch-Haack was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist....
, 1878 — South America