Six-eyed spiders are spiders that, unlike most spider species, lack the principal pair of eyes, leaving them with only six eyes instead of the usual eight. [1]
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- Scytodoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders
- Leptonetoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders
- Leptonetidae
- Ochyroceratidae
- Telemidae—predominantly six-eyed, but some species with none. [4]
- Diguetidae—family of six-eyed spiders
- Pholcidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six. [5]
- Caponiidae—family with species with 8, 6, 4 and 2 eyes and some with a variable number of eyes
- Tetrablemmidae
- Dysderoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders
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- Dictynidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six. [14]
References
- ^ A Spider’s World: Senses and Behavior
- ^ Filmer (1991), p. 106.
- ^ Eaton & Kaufman (2007), p. 22.
- ^ Shapiro, Leo. "Telemidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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^ Shapiro, Leo (16 May 2015).
"Pholcidae".
Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
Most pholcids have eight eyes, although some have only six.
- ^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [46, f. 1A-C, 2A-H]
- ^ * Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1D-F, 3A-G]
- ^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1G-I, 4A-F]
- ^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2007. A new six-eyed pholcid spider (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Karst Tiankeng of Leye County, Guangxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32: 505-507. [505, f. 1-6]
- ^ * Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [52, f. 1J-L, 5A-G]
- ^ Rix & Harvey (2010), p. 33.
- ^ Ono, H. 2005: Two new six-eyed spiders of the genera Orchestina and Comaroma (Araneae, Oonopidae and Anapidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (A), 31: 37-43.
- ^ Yaginuma, T. 1968. A new six-eyed spider of the genus Cybaeus. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 21: 31-33. [31, f. 1-8]
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^ Shapiro, Leo.
"Dictynidae".
Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
some species lack the anterior median eyes altogether
Bibliography
- Davidovici, Batya B.; Wolf, Ronni (2009). Jean Revuz; Jean-Claude Roujeau; Francisco Kerdel; Laurence Valeyrie-Allanore (eds.). "Noxious Spider Bites". Life-Threatening Dermatoses and Emergencies in Dermatology. Springer Science+Business Media: 215–222. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79339-7_23. ISBN 978-3540793397.
- Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L. (2001). Forest Spiders of South East Asia: With a Revision of the Sac and Ground Spiders. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-9004119598.
- Eaton, Eric R.; Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0618153107.
- Filmer, Martin R. (1991). Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide. Random House. ISBN 978-1868251889.
- Rix, Mihael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). The Spider Family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): A Relimitation and Revision at the Generic Level. Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-9546425317.
External links
- Lynette (23 October 2006). "Spider Eye Arrangements". BugGuide. Retrieved 16 May 2015.