Titanoecidae

Updated on Sep 25, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Phylum Arthropoda Order Spider		Subphylum Chelicerata Infraorder Araneomorphae Rank Family

Similar Senoculidae, Palpimanidae, Coneweb spider, Cithaeronidae, Cycloctenidae

Titanoecidae is a spider family with five genera and more than 50 species worldwide. The family is fairly widespread in the New World and Eurasia. Once part of the family Amaurobiidae, these are mostly dark-colored builders of "woolly" (cribellate) silk webs. The main genus is Titanoeca. Several species are found at relatively high altitudes in mountain ranges and may be very common in such habitats.

Genera

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

Anuvinda Lehtinen, 1967 – India, Nepal, China, Thailand, Laos

Goeldia Keyserling, 1891 – Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela to Argentina, including Peru and Brazil

Nurscia Simon, 1874 – Europe, Egypt, Central Asia, Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan

Pandava Lehtinen, 1967 – widespread from East Africa through South Asia to the Marquesas Islands; introduced into Europe

Titanoeca Thorell, 1870 – widespread in the Holarctic south to India

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References

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