Trechaleidae

Not to be confused with Trachelidae.

Trechaleidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trechaleidae Simon, 1890
Genera
See text.
Diversity
16 genera, 120 species
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The Trechaleidae are a spider family with about 120 described species in 16 genera.

Distribution

Almost all species in this family live in Central and South America. Only Shinobius orientalis is endemic to Japan.

Genera

As of March 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:

• Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
• Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Peru
• Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
• Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Panama, Colombia, Trinidad, Peru, Brazil
• Dyrines Simon, 1903 – Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
• Enna O. P-Cambridge, 1897 – Central and South America
• Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
• Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – Central and South America
• Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Guyana, Brazil, Peru
• Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Central and South America
• Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
• Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
• Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
• Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Central and South America
• Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Central and South America
• Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

See also

• List of Trechaleidae species
• Spider families

References

• Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59. PDF
• Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. J. Arachnol. 21: 226-257. PDF