Miturgidae
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| Mituliodon tarantulinus | |
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| male Miturga albopunctata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Miturgidae Simon, 1886 |
| Diversity | |
| 33 genera, 193 species | |
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| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Zoridae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893 | |
Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes about 200 species in 33 genera worldwide.[1]
First described by Eugène Simon in 1886,[2] it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous family Zoridae as a synonym,[3] and excludes the family Xenoctenidae.[4] Several genera have also been removed, such as the large genus Cheiracanthium, which was transferred to the Cheiracanthiidae.[5]
Description
[edit]Spiders of the Miturgidae family are small-to-medium sized spiders, with most genera possessing a brown and gray band pattern on the spider's body.[6]
Behavior
[edit]Miturgidae spiders are nocturnal. They live on the ground or on foliage, where they build a sac-like shelter on vegetation or under rocks or other debris. Mother spiders will deposit and protect her eggs in these shelters.
Genera
[edit]As of January 2026[update], this family includes 33 genera and 193 species:[1]
- Argoctenus L. Koch, 1878 – Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand
- Coryssiphus Simon, 1903 – South Africa
- Diaprograpta Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Elassoctenus Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Eupograpta Raven, 2009 – Australia
- Hestimodema Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Israzorides Levy, 2003 – Israel
- Knotodo Raven, 2023 – Australia
- Mituliodon Raven & Stumkat, 2003 – Australia, Timor
- Miturga Thorell, 1870 – Australia
- Miturgiella Raven, 2023 – Australia
- Miturgopelma Raven, 2023 – Australia
- Mitzoruga Raven, 2009 – Australia
- Nuliodon Raven, 2009 – Australia
- Odomasta Simon, 1909 – Australia
- Palicanus Thorell, 1897 – Réunion, Seychelles, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, India
- Parapostenus Lessert, 1923 – Lesotho, South Africa
- Prochora Simon, 1886 – Algeria, Asia, Italy
- Pseudoceto Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
- Septsigilla H. B. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2025 – China
- Simonus Ritsema, 1881 – Australia
- Syrisca Simon, 1886 – DR Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Senegal, Argentina, Colombia
- Syspira Simon, 1895 – Dominican Rep, Mexico, United States
- Systaria Simon, 1897 – Asia, Vanuatu
- Tamin Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo
- Teminius Keyserling, 1887 – Mexico, United States, Argentina, Paraguay, Greater Antilles to Argentina
- Thasyraea L. Koch, 1878 – Australia
- Tuxoctenus Raven, 2008 – Australia
- Xantharia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam
- Xeromiturga Raven, 2023 – Australia
- Xistera Raven, 2023 – Australia
- Zealoctenus Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
- Zora C. L. Koch, 1847 – Algeria, Asia, Europe, North America
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Family Miturgidae Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-17.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1886). "Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 6 (5): 345–396.
- ↑ Ramírez, Martín (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of Dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 1–374. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
- ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.
- ↑ Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society.
- ↑ Chen, Shyh-hwang; Huang, Wen-Jean (May 2012). The Spider Fauna of Taiwan. National Taiwan Normal University. p. 5. ISBN 9789577526687.
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