Flexicrurum
Flexicrurum minutum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Psilodercidae
Genus: Flexicrurum
Tong & Li, 2007
Species
  • Flexicrurum flexicrurum Tong & Li, 2007
  • Flexicrurum longispina Tong & Li, 2007
  • Flexicrurum minutum Tong & Li, 2007
Location of Hainan, China

Flexicrurum is a genus of spiders from China similar to the genera Althepus and Leclercera. Tong and Li originally placed the genus in Ochyroceratidae[1] Still, Tong later moved it to Psilodercidae.[2] Males are generally smaller than 2 mm, but the size of females is unknown. The name is derived from the Latin flex "curved", and crur "leg", referring to the inner turned palpal tibia of the male.[1] As of 2019 three described species have been found in caves of Hainan Island.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Tong, Y. F.; Li, S. Q. (2007). "First records of the family Ochyroceratidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China, with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 55: 63–76.
  2. ↑ Tong, Y. F. (2013). "Haplogynae spiders from Hainan, China". Science Press, Beijing: 19.
  3. ↑ "Family: Psilodercidae Machado,1951". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
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