Physoglenidae

Physoglenidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1928 as a subfamily of Pholcidae.[1] It was later moved to Synotaxidae[2] until a study in 2016 showed that they formed a distinct clade.[3]

Physoglenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Petrunkevitch, 1928
Diversity
13 genera, 73 species

Genera

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[4]

References

  1. Petrunkevitch, A. (1928). "Systema Aranearum". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 29.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193.
  3. Dimitrov, Dimitar; et al. (2016). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  4. "Family: Physoglenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
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