Plectreurid spider
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Plectreurid spiders (family Plectreuridae) belong to a small family confined to the North American deserts and the island of Cuba. Only two genera are known - the nominate genus Plectreurys and Kibramoa. These ecribellate (lacking a plate-like wooly silk-producing structure anterior to the spinnerets on the venter), haplogyne spiders build haphazard webs under rocks and dead cacti. Relatively little is known of their biology. Unlike the sicariids, scytodids and diguetids, to which they are related, they have eight eyes. In appearance females of Plectreurys resemble those of the larger species of the cribellate Filistatidae. They differ in their eye arrangement and in having the first femora (third leg segment from the body) bowed.
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Kibramoa Chamberlin, 1924
- Kibramoa guapa Gertsch, 1958 (USA, Mexico)
- Kibramoa hermani Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 (USA)
- Kibramoa isolata Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Kibramoa madrona Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Kibramoa paiuta Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Kibramoa suprenans (Chamberlin, 1919) (USA)
- Kibramoa suprenans pima Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Kibramoa yuma Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
Plectreurys Simon, 1893
- Plectreurys angela Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys ardea Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys arida Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys bicolor Banks, 1898 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys castanea Simon, 1893 (USA)
- Plectreurys ceralbona Chamberlin, 1924 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys conifera Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys deserta Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys globosa Franganillo, 1931 (Cuba)
- Plectreurys hatibonico Alayón, 2003 (Cuba)
- Plectreurys misteca Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys mojavea Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys monterea Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys nahuana Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys oasa Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys paisana Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys schicki Gertsch, 1958 (USA)
- Plectreurys tecate Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys tristis Simon, 1893 (USA, Mexico)
- Plectreurys valens Chamberlin, 1924 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys vaquera Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
- Plectreurys zacateca Gertsch, 1958 (Mexico)
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