Trechaleidae (tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890.[2] It includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.[3] Other names for the family are longlegged water spiders and fishing spiders[4] (although members of the pisaurid genus Dolomedes are also commonly called fishing spiders). The family Trechaleidae is closely related to Pisauridae (nursery web spiders) and Lycosidae (wolf spiders), and the three families are sometimes referred to as the lycosid group.[5]
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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: | Trechaleidae Simon, 1890[1] |
| Diversity | |
| 16 genera, 140 species | |
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Genera
editAs of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]
- Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
- Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – South America, Panama
- Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
- Cupiennius Simon, 1891 – Mexico to northwestern South America
- Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Trinidad, South America
- Dyrines Simon, 1903 – South America, Panama
- Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 – South America, Central America, Mexico
- Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
- Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – South America, Central America
- Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Guyana, Peru
- Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – South America, Nicaragua
- Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
- Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – South America
- Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
- Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – South America, Mexico
- Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Trinidad, South America, North America, Central America
- Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – South America
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Simon, E. (1890). Etudes arachnologiques.
- ^ Yaginuma, T. (1991). "A new genus, Shinobius, of the Japanese pisaurid spider (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Acta Arachnologica. 40: 1–6. doi:10.2476/asjaa.40.1.
- ^ "Family Trechaleidae". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ Hill, David Edwin (30 July 2023). "Practical issues related to cladistics and the classification of spiders" (PDF). Peckhamia. 303 (1): 1–12. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
Further reading
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Wikispecies has information related to Trechaleidae.
- Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59. PDF
- Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. J. Arachnol. 21: 226-257. PDF