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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Filistatidae

Family Filistatidae

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Brown Spider Kukulcania hibernalis - Kukulcania hibernalis - female Southern House Spider pic #2 - Kukulcania hibernalis - male Kukulcania - male Southern House Spider-Top View - Kukulcania hibernalis Kukulcania female guarding egg sac - Kukulcania - female Some type of spider.... - Kukulcania Spider, extra long front legs, desert area - Kukulcania Kukulcania arizonica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
Family Filistatidae
Numbers
2 genera in Bugguide's range - USA/Canada.
Range
Filistatinella
- crassipalpis - USA
- hermosa - USA
- howdyall - USA
- pistrix - USA
- spatulata - USA & Mexico
- tohono - USA
Kukulcania
- arizonica - USA
- geophila - USA
- - geophila wawona - USA
- hibernalis - southern USA, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America(1)
- hurca - USA
- utahana - USA
Internet References
World Spider Catalog (2017). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 18.5, accessed on 10/30/2017.

The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling
Works Cited
1.World Spider Catalog
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 6 June, 2005 - 4:23pm
Additional contributions by Jeff Hollenbeck, Laura P.
Last updated 31 December, 2020 - 3:09pm

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