Trechaleidae (tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee) is a family of
araneomorphspiders first described by
Eugène Simon in 1890.[2] It includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in
Central and
South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is
endemic to
Japan.[3] Other names for the family are longlegged water spiders and fishing spiders[4] (although members of the pisaurid genus Dolomedes are also commonly called fishing spiders). The family Trechaleidae is closely related to
Pisauridae (nursery web spiders) and
Lycosidae (wolf spiders), and the three families are sometimes referred to as the lycosid group.[5]
Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59.
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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.
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