Stenochilidae
Sign in to saveStenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk. First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873, it now contains thirteen described species in two genera.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyStenochilidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- Family
- Stenochilidae
- Collections
- FMNH, CASC
- Recorded in
- Laos, Australia, Thailand, Brunei
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- Parent taxon
- Palpimanoidea
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- taxonomic type
- Stenochilus
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Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk. First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873, it now contains thirteen described species in two genera.
==Etymology== The family name Stenochilidae is derived from the type genus Stenochilus, which comes from the Greek words στενός (narrow) and χεῖλος (lip), referring to the narrow labium characteristic of these spiders.
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