Ochyroceratidae
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The Ochyroceratidae are a six-eyed spider family in the Leptonetoidea superfamily, with 146 described species in 13 genera.
Ochyroceratidae are common inhabitants of the tropical forest litter in South Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, especially species rich in the Indo-Pacific.
They build small sheet-webs around leaves, sticks and logs, and typically carry their eggs in their chelicerae until they hatch.
At least one species in the genus Theotima (the only 0.9mm long T. minutissima) was shown to be parthenogenetic.
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[edit] Genera
- Althepus Thorell, 1898 (South Asia)
- Dundocera Machado, 1951 (Angola)
- Euso Saaristo, 2001 (Seychelles)
- Fageicera Dumitrescu & Georgescu, 1992 (Cuba)
- Leclercera Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 (South Asia)
- Lundacera Machado, 1951 (Angola)
- Merizocera Fage, 1912 (South Asia)
- Ochyrocera Simon, 1891 (Mexico to Peru)
- Ouette Saaristo, 1998 (Seychelles)
- Psiloderces Simon, 1892 (South Asia)
- Roche Saaristo, 1998 (Seychelles)
- Speocera Berland, 1914 (South Asia, South America, Africa)
- Theotima Simon, 1893 (Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands)
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[edit] References
- Edwards (2003): Observations of Theotima minutissimus (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae), a parthenogenetic spider. The Journal of Arachnology 31:274-277 PDF
- Baptista, R.L.C., 2003. Speocera eleonorae sp. n., the first troglomorphic spider from Brazilian caves (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 7: 221-224. PDF
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