Holarchaeidae

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Holarchaeidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Archaeoidea
Family: Holarchaeidae
Forster & Platnick, 1984

Genera

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The Holarchaeidae are a spider family with only two described species in one genus.

They are only up to 1.5mm in size and shiny black to beige in color. Together with the Uloboridae and the Mesothelae, they are the only spiders known to lack venom glands.

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Distribution

Holarchaeid spiders are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in microhabitats with consistently high humidity.

Species

Holarchaea Forster, 1955

See also

References

  • Forster, R. R. & N. I. Platnick (1984). A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 178:1-106. Abstract - PDF (60Mb)
  • Meier J. & White J. (eds) {1995). Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

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