Liocranoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zoropsidae
Genus: Liocranoides
Keyserling, 1881[1]
Type species
L. unicolor
Keyserling, 1881
Species

5, see text

Liocranoides is a genus of American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[2] They live in habitats with cold surfaces, such as caves.[3] It was transferred from the sac spiders to the Tengellidae in 1967,[4] which was later merged with Zoropsidae.[5]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains five species, found Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia:[3][1]

  • Liocranoides archeri Platnick, 1999 – USA
  • Liocranoides coylei Platnick, 1999 – USA
  • Liocranoides gertschi Platnick, 1999 – USA
  • Liocranoides tennesseensis Platnick, 1999 – USA
  • Liocranoides unicolor Keyserling, 1881 (type) – USA

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  2. ↑ Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 31: 269–314. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.20318.
  3. 1 2 "Genus Liocranoides". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  4. ↑ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 244.
  5. ↑ Polotow, Daniele; Carmichael, Anthea & Griswold, Charles E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi:10.1071/IS14041.


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