Miturgidae

Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genera worldwide.[1] First described by Eugène Simon in 1886,[2] it has been substantially revised, including of previous family "Zoridae" as subfamily "Zorinae"[3] and excluding the family "Xenoctenidae".[4] Several genera have also been removed, such as the large genus Cheiracanthium, which was transferred to the Cheiracanthiidae.[5]

Long-legged sac spiders Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Miturga albopunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Miturgidae Simon, 1886
Diversity
29 genera, 167 species

Genera

Main article: List of Miturgidae species

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]

• Argoctenus L. Koch, 1878 — New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea
• Diaprograpta Simon, 1909 — Australia
• Elassoctenus Simon, 1909 — Australia
• Eupograpta Raven, 2009 — Australia
• Hestimodema Simon, 1909 — Australia
• Israzorides Levy, 2003 — Israel
• Mituliodon Raven & Stumkat, 2003 — Timor-Leste, Australia
• Miturga Thorell, 1870 — Australia
• Mitzoruga Raven, 2009 — Australia
• Nuliodon Raven, 2009 — Australia
• Odomasta Simon, 1909 — Australia
• Pacificana Hogg, 1904 — New Zealand
• Palicanus Thorell, 1897 — Asia, Seychelles
• Parapostenus Lessert, 1923 — South Africa, Lesotho
• Prochora Simon, 1886 — Italy, Asia
• Pseudoceto Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Brazil
• Simonus Ritsema, 1881 — Australia
• Syrisca Simon, 1886 — South America, Africa
• Syspira Simon, 1895 — United States, Mexico
• Systaria Simon, 1897 — Asia, Oceania
• Tamin Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 — Indonesia
• Teminius Keyserling, 1887 — North America, South America
• Thasyraea L. Koch, 1878 — Australia
• Tuxoctenus Raven, 2008 — Australia
• Voraptus Simon, 1898 — Africa, Indonesia
• Xantharia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 — Indonesia
• Zealoctenus Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Zora C. L. Koch, 1847 — Asia, Europe, North America
• Zoroides Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia

References

1. "Family: Miturgidae Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
2. Simon, E. (1886). "Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 6 (5): 345–396.
3. Ramírez, Martín (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of Dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 1–374. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066.
4. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.
5. Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society.

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