Stenochilidae

Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk.^[1] First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873,^[2] it now contains twelve described species in two genera.

Stenochilidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Superfamily:	Palpimanoidea
Family:	Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873
Genera
Colopea Simon, 1893 Stenochilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
Diversity
2 genera, 14 species

Species

As of April 2019^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:^[3][4]

Colopea Simon, 1893

• Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, Thailand
• Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 — China
• Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
• Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) — Philippines
• Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 — Bali
• Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
• Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — Fiji
• Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 — Borneo
• Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Vietnam
• Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea

Stenochilus O. P-Cambridge, 1870

• Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 — Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka
• Stenochilus hobsoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 — India
• Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — India

See also

• List of Stenochilidae species
• Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.

References

1. Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63.
2. Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
3. "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
4. Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2556).