Palpimanidae
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The Palp-footed spiders (Palpimanidae) are a spider family with about 130 described species in 15 genera. Instead of the normal six, Palpimanidae have only two spinnerets. Their first legs are greatly enlarged. (Platnick 1975).
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[edit] Distribution
Species of this family occur in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, China, with a few species in the Mediterranean and one in Uzbekistan.
[edit] Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
- Chedimidae
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- Badia Roewer, 1961 (Senegal)
- Boagrius Simon, 1893 (Africa, South Asia)
- Chedima Simon, 1873 (Morocco)
- Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893 (Africa)
- Hybosida Simon, 1898 (Africa, Seychelles)
- Sarascelis Simon, 1887 (Africa, India, Malaysia)
- Scelidocteus Simon, 1907 (Africa)
- Scelidomachus Pocock, 1899 (Socotra)
- Steriphopus Simon, 1887 (Myanmar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka)
- Otiothopinae Platnick, 1999
- Palpimaninae Thorell, 1870
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- Ikuma Lawrence, 1938 (Namibia)
- Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 (Mediterranean, Africa, South America, India, Uzbekistan)
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[edit] Further reading
- Platnick, N.I. (1975). A revision of the palpimanid spiders of the new subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimandae). American Museum novitates 2562. PDF - Abstract
- Platnick, N.I. (1978). A new Otiothops from Colombia (Araneae, Palpimanidae). J. Arachnol. 5: 179-180. PDF (O. kochalkai)
- Platnick, N.I. (1985). On the Chilean spiders of the family Palpimanidae (Arachnida, Araneae). J. Arachnol. 13:399-400. PDF
- Platnick, N.I., Grismado, C.J. & Ramírez, M.J. (1999). On the genera of the spider subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimanidae). American Museum novitates 3257 PDF - Abstract
- Grismado, C.J. (2002). Palpimanid spiders from Guyana: New species of the genera Fernandezina and Otiothops (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Otiothopinae). Iheringia, Sér. Zool. 92:3: PDF - HTML - DOI:10.1590/S0073-47212002000300002
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