Barychelidae
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The Brushed trapdoor spiders (family Barychelidae) are a spider family with about 300 species in 44 genera. This family is the only family in superfamily Barycheloidea.
Most spiders in this family build trap-door burrows. There are some species that avoid flooding by plugging their nests. Others can avoid drowning by trapping air bubbles within their fur.
Like the Theraphosidae (tarantulas), they can run up glass.
Some species can stridulate.
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[edit] Distribution
Barychelids are found in South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, New Guinea, and Pacific islands.
[edit] Genera
- Ammonius Thorell, 1899 (Cameroon)
- Atrophothele Pocock, 1903 (Socotra)
- Aurecocrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Barycheloides Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
- Barychelus Simon, 1889 (New Caledonia)
- Cosmopelma Simon, 1889 (Brazil, Venezuela)
- Cyphonisia Simon, 1889 (Africa)
- Cyrtogrammomma Pocock, 1895 (Guyana)
- Diplothele O. P-Cambridge, 1890 (India)
- Encyocrypta Simon, 1889 (New Caledonia)
- Eubrachycercus Pocock, 1897 (Somalia)
- Fijocrypta Raven, 1994 (Fiji)
- Idioctis L. Koch, 1874 (Madagascar, Oceania, Australia, Seychelles)
- Idiommata Ausserer, 1871 (Australia)
- Idiophthalma O. P.-Cambridge, 1877 (South America)
- Mandjelia Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Monodontium Kulczynski, 1908 (New Guinea)
- Moruga Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Natgeogia Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
- Neodiplothele Mello-Leitão, 1917 (Brazil)
- Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992 (Oceania)
- Orstom Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
- Ozicrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Paracenobiopelma Feio, 1952 (Brazil)
- Pisenor Simon, 1889 (Africa)
- Plagiobothrus Karsch, 1891 (Sri Lanka)
- Psalistops Simon, 1889 (Central to South America)
- Questocrypta Raven, 1994 (New Caledonia)
- Reichlingia Rudloff, 2001 (Belize)
- Rhianodes Raven, 1985 (Southeast Asia)
- Sason Simon, 1887 (Australasia)
- Sasonichus Pocock, 1900 (India)
- Seqocrypta Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Sipalolasma Simon, 1892 (Southeast Asia, Africa)
- Strophaeus Ausserer, 1875 (Peru, Brazil)
- Synothele Simon, 1908 (Australia)
- Thalerommata Ausserer, 1875 (Colombia, Mexico)
- Tigidia Simon, 1892 (Madagascar, Mauritius)
- Trichopelma Simon, 1888 (Caribic, South America)
- Trittame L. Koch, 1874 (Australia)
- Troglothele Fage, 1929 (Cuba)
- Tungari Raven, 1994 (Australia)
- Zophorame Raven, 1990 (Australia)
- Zophoryctes Simon, 1902 (Madagascar)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Raven, R. J., 1986. A revision of the spider genus Sason Simon (Sasoninae, Barychelidae, Mygalomorphae) and its historical biogeography. Journal of Arachnology, 14: 47-70. PDF
- Valerio, C. E. 1986. Mygalomorph spiders in the Barychelidae (Araneae) from Costa Rica. J. Arachnol., 14:93-99. PDF (Psalistops venadensis, Trichopelma laselva)
- SCHWENDINGER, P. J. 2003. Two new species of the arboreal trapdoor spider genus Sason (Araneae, Barychelidae) from Southeast Asia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2): 197-207. PDF (S. sundaicum, S. andamanicum)
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