Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
One genus (Microhexura) formerly placed in Dipluridae.
Explanation of Names
Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020
(1)Numbers
2 species in one genus, both in our range.
* = type species
Range
Microhexura
Microhexura idahoana: Cascade Mountains, Blue Mountains, and northern Rocky Mountains of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
(2)
Microhexura montivaga: higher mountain peaks of the southern Blue Ridge Province in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
(2) Habitat
Ground-based webs under objects or in soft organic substrates.
Remarks
Microhexura montivaga, the "Spruce-fir moss spider," is an endangered/protected species and is also one of the world's smallest mygalomorphs!
Info. on this page mostly added by other contributors but transferred to this page from node
Euagridae (formerly a Dipluridae node) by me, Laura P. Additional contributors:
Jeff Hollenbeck,
Graham M,
mhedin, and
Mandy Howe.
Print References
Coyle, Frederick A., 1981. The mygalomorph spider genus
Microhexura (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 170: 64-75. (download available
here)
Coyle, Frederick A., 1988. A revision of the American funnel-web mygalomorph spider genus
Euagrus (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 187: 203-292. (download available
here)
Ubick et al., 2005. Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society, Keene (New Hampshire). 377 pages.