Cave spiders

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Ochyroceratidae is a six-eyed spider family, with almost 200 described species in nine genera.

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Psechridae is a family of araneomorph spiders with about 60 species in two genera. These are among the biggest cribellate spiders with body lengths up to and funnel webs more than in diameter.

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Troglohyphantes is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by G. Joseph in 1881. The genus name is a combination of the Ancient Greek (troglo-), meaning "cave (dweller)", and -hyphantes, a common ending for linyphiid genera.

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Flexicrurum is a genus of spiders from China similar to the genera Althepus and Leclercera. Tong and Li originally placed the genus in Ochyroceratidae Still, Tong later moved it to Psilodercidae. Males are generally smaller than 2 mm, but the size of females is unknown. The name is derived from the Latin flex "curved", and crur "leg", referring to the inner turned palpal tibia of the male. three described species have been found in caves of Hainan Island.

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Trogloraptor is a genus of large spiders found in the caves of southwestern Oregon. It is the sole genus in the family Trogloraptoridae, and includes only one species, Trogloraptor marchingtoni. These spiders are predominantly yellow-brown in color with a maximum leg span of . They are remarkable for having hook-like claws on the raptorial last segments of their legs.

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species of troglobite arachnid

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Spelungula is a monotypic genus of South Pacific large-clawed spiders containing the single species, Spelungula cavernicola, or the Nelson cave spider.

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Hickmania is a monotypic genus of Australian cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Gradungulidae, containing only the Tasmanian cave spider (Hickmania troglodytes).