Liocranoides
| Liocranoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zoropsidae |
| Genus: | Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. unicolor Keyserling, 1881
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Liocranoides is a genus of American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[2] They live in habitats with cold surfaces, such as caves.[3] It was transferred from the sac spiders to the Tengellidae in 1967,[4] which was later merged with Zoropsidae.[5]
Species
[edit]As of September 2019[update] it contains five species, found Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia:[3][1]
- Liocranoides archeri Platnick, 1999 – USA
- Liocranoides coylei Platnick, 1999 – USA
- Liocranoides gertschi Platnick, 1999 – USA
- Liocranoides tennesseensis Platnick, 1999 – USA
- Liocranoides unicolor Keyserling, 1881 (type) – USA
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 31: 269–314. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.20318.
- ^ a b "Genus Liocranoides". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 244.
- ^ Polotow, Daniele; Carmichael, Anthea & Griswold, Charles E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi:10.1071/IS14041.