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Long-legged sac spiders
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Miturga albopunctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Miturgidae
Simon, 1886
Diversity
29 genera, 167 species
Synonyms [1]

Zoridae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893

Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genera worldwide. [1] First described by Eugène Simon in 1886, [2] it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous family Zoridae as a synonym, [3] and excludes the family Xenoctenidae. [4] Several genera have also been removed, such as the large genus Cheiracanthium, which was transferred to the Cheiracanthiidae. [5]

Genera

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Family: Miturgidae Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1886). "Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 6 (5): 345–396.
  3. ^ Ramírez, Martín (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of Dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 1–374. doi: 10.1206/821.1. hdl: 11336/18066. S2CID  86146467.
  4. ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 576–616. doi: 10.1111/cla.12182. PMID  34724759. S2CID  35535038.
  5. ^ Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society.

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