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Plectreurid spiders
male plectreurid
male plectreurid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Pholcoidea
Family: Plectreuridae
Simon, 1893
Diversity
2 genera, 30 species

Genera

Kibramoa
Plectreurys

Plectreurid spiders (family Plectreuridae) belong to a small family confined to the North American deserts and the island of Cuba. Arthropods are Animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, " Joint " Arachnids are a class ( Arachnida) of joint-legged Invertebrate Animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings The Pholcoidea are a Superfamily of araneomorph spiders They contain two families of six-eyed spiders Diguetidae Eugène Simon ( April 30, 1848 - November 17, 1924) was a French Arachnologist. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This page lists all described species of the spider family Plectreuridae as of June 19 2007 A desert is a Landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Only two genera are known - the nominate genus Plectreurys and Kibramoa. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic These ecribellate (lacking a plate-like wooly silk-producing structure anterior to the spinnerets on the venter), haplogyne spiders build haphazard webs under rocks and dead cacti. A cribellum is a kind of comb-like device in certain Spiders used to separate fibers of Silk drawn from its Spinnerets into many extremely fine fibers giving Spider silk, also known as Gossamer, is a Protein Fiber spun by Spiders Spiders use their silk to make webs or other structures which function A cactus (plural cacti) is any member of the Spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas Relatively little is known of their biology. Unlike the sicariids, scytodids and diguetids, to which they are related, they have eight eyes. In appearance females of Plectreurys resemble those of the larger species of the cribellate Filistatidae. They differ in their eye arrangement and in having the first femora (third leg segment from the body) bowed. The femur is the thigh bone In Humans, it is the longest, most voluminous and strongest Bone.

Species

Kibramoa Chamberlin, 1924

Plectreurys Simon, 1893

See also

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Willis John Gertsch (1906 - 1998 was an Entomologist specialising in Arachnology. Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967 was an American Zoologist from Salt Lake City Utah. Wilton Ivie (1907-1969 was an American Entomologist, who descriped a lot of Arachnida -species This page lists all described species of the spider family Plectreuridae as of June 19 2007 Spider taxonomy is the Alpha taxonomy of the Spiders members of the Araneae order of the arthropod
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