Liocranidae

Liocranidae
Liocranum rupicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Liocranidae Simon, 1897
Genera
Agroeca Neoanagraphis many others
Diversity
30 genera, > 150 species

Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, consisting of about 160 species of wandering spiders in 30 or so genera. Along with other groups, they are sometimes called "sac spiders". The best known are those in the Holarctic genus Agroeca. Various genera of rather obscure spiders are included in the family, which still lacks a diagnosis. Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. The females apparently live in animal burrows and the males wander and are often caught in pitfall traps.

Genera

The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.

Egg sac of Agroeca brunnea

• Cybaeodinae

• Cybaeodes Simon, 1878 (Mediterranean)
• Donuea Strand, 1932 (Madagascar)
• Hesperocranum Ubick & Platnick, 1991 (USA)
• Heterochemmis F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900 (Mexico)
• Itatsina Kishida, 1930 (China, Korea, Japan)
• Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Myanmar, Thailand)
• Laudetia Gertsch, 1941 (Dominica)

• Liocraninae Simon, 1897

• Apostenus Westring, 1851 (Africa, Europe, North America)
• Argistes Simon, 1897 (Namibia, Sri Lanka)
• Coryssiphus Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
• Liocranoeca Wunderlich, 1999 (USA, Europe, Russia)
• Liocranum L. Koch, 1866 (Cuba, Europe to Georgia, Mediterranean, New Guinea)
• Liparochrysis Simon, 1909 (Australia)
• Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (Mediterranean, Central Asia, Africa)
• Mesobria Simon, 1897 (St. Vincent)
• Montebello Hogg, 1914 (Australia)
• Neoanagraphis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 (USA, Mexico)
• Paratus Simon, 1898 (Sri Lanka)
• Plynnon Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Borneo, Sumatra)
• Rhaeboctesis Simon, 1897 (Africa)
• Sagana Thorell, 1875 (Europe to Georgia)
• Scotina Menge, 1873 (Europe, Algeria, Russia, Malta)
• Sesieutes Simon, 1897 (southern Asia)
• Sphingius Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)
• Sudharmia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Sumatra)
• Teutamus Thorell, 1890 (southern Asia)

• incertae sedis

• Agraecina Simon, 1932 (Western Mediterranean, Romania, Canary Islands)
• Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Holarctic)
• Andromma Simon, 1893 (Africa)
• Brachyanillus Simon, 1913 (Spain, Algeria)

See also

• List of Liocranidae species
• Spider families

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Arachnology Home Pages: Araneae