Liphistiidae

Liphistiidae sunt familia aranearum subordinis Mesothelarum, cui sunt tres genera et 89 species in Asia Meridiorientali, Sinis, et Iaponia endemicae. Eae inter basalissimas araneas vivas ponuntur. In Iaponia, Heptathela kimurai (vulgo kimura-gumo) a paene omnibus agnoscitur.

Genera
Heptathela Kishida, 1923, Vietnamia, Iaponia, Sinae (circa 26 species)
Liphistius Schiødte, 1849, Asia Meridiorientalis (circa 47 species)
Nanthela Haupt, 2003, Hongcongum, Vietnamia (2 species)
Ryuthela Haupt, 1983, Insulae Ryukyu, Okinava (7 species)
Songthela Ono, 2000, Sinae (4 species)

Familiae aranearum
Index specierum Liphistiidarum

Notae

Bibliographia
 Coddington, J. A., et H. W. Levi. 1991. Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae). Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 22:565-592. doi 10.1146/annurev.es.22.110191.003025.
 Ono, H. 1999. Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Vietnam, with notes on their natural history. The Journal of Arachnology 27(1):37-43. PDF.
 Murphy, Frances, et Murphy, John. 2000. An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society.
 Haupt, J. 2004. The Mesothelae: a monograph of an exceptional group of spiders (Araneae: Mesothelae). Zoologica 154:8. ISSN 0044-5088, ISBN 3-510-55041-2. Abstractum.

Nexus externus

De Liphistiidis, www.arkive.org
Platnick, Norman I. 2011. The world spider catalog, versio 12.0, research.amnh.org (American Museum of Natural History)

Categoria:Araneae Asiae
Categoria:Fossilia viva
Categoria:Mesothelae
Categoria:Taxa Thorell
Categoria:Taxa 1869
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