Segestriidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Superfamilia: Segestrioidea

Familia: Segestriidae
Subfamiliae: Segestriinae – †Lebansegestriinae – †Microsegestriinae
Genera: Ariadna – Gippsicola – Indoseges – Segestria – †Denticulsegestria – †Jordansegestria – †Jordariadna – †Lebansegestria – †Magnosegestria – †Myansegestria – †Palaeosegestria – †Parvosegestria
Name

Segestriidae Simon, 1893
References

Choudhury, S.R., Siliwal, M., Das, S.K. & Giroti, A.M. 2021. Description of a new genus and five new species of tube-dwelling spider family Segestriidae (Araneae: Synspermiata) from Odisha, India. Zootaxa 4963(1): 091–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.4. Paywall. Reference page.
Giroti, A.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. Revision of the spider genus Gippsicola Hogg, 1900 (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4227(3): 390–406. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.6. Reference page.
Paquin, P.; Vink, C.J.; Dupérré, N. 2010: Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. ISBN 9780478347050
Wunderlich, J. 2008. The dominance of ancient spider families of the Araneae: Haplogyne in the Cretaceous, and the late diversification of advanced ecribellate spiders of the Entelegynae after the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary extinction events, with descriptions of new families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 524–675. Reference page.
Wunderlich, J. 2015. On the evolution and the classification of spiders, the Mesozoic spider faunas, and descriptions of new Cretaceous taxa mainly in amber from Myanmar (Burma) (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 21–408. Reference page.
Wunderlich, J. & Müller, P. 2020. New and already described fossil spiders (Araneae) of 20 families in Mid Cretaceous Burmese amber with notes on spider phylogeny, evolution and classification. Beiträge zur Araneologie 13: 22–164. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
català: Segèstrid
Deutsch: Fischernetzspinnen
English: Tube-dwelling spiders
español: Segestriidae
français: Segestriidae
italiano: Segestriidae
日本語: エンマグモ
한국어: 공주거미과
lietuvių: Plyšiavoriai
Nederlands: Zesoogspinnen
norsk: Segestriidae
português: Segestriidae
română: Segestriidae
русский: Segestriidae
slovenčina: Segestriidae
Türkçe: Segestriidae
Tiếng Việt: Segestriidae
中文: 类石蛛科

Tube-dwelling spiders (Segestriidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1893.[1] It consists of five genera, two large and widespread, Segestria and Ariadna, and three smaller genera, Citharoceps, Gippsicola and Indoseges.[2] They are haplogyne spiders, related to the Dysderidae and placed in clade or superfamily Dysderoidea.

Members of this family are easily recognized because their first three pairs of legs are arranged forward instead of two and they have six eyes instead of eight, arranged in a semicircle.[1] The leg structure appears to be an adaptation for living in silken tubes. Unlike those of the atypical tarantulas, these tubes may branch and are often built in tree bark fissures, as well as under stones.

Both Segestria and Ariadna live in North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa and New Zealand, though Ariadna also lives in Australia.[2]
Genera
Main article: List of Segestriidae species

As of July 2021, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[2]

Ariadna Audouin, 1826—South America, Europe, North America, Oceania, Africa, Asia, Central America, Dominican Republic
Citharoceps Chamberlin, 1924—United States, Mexico
Gippsicola Hogg, 1900—Australia
Indoseges Siliwal, Das, Choudhury & Giroti, 2021—India
Segestria Latreille, 1804—Asia, North America, Europe, South America, Africa, New Zealand