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Genus Titiotus

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Red wine colored spider found under a trash can and also in the septic tank. - Titiotus Spider - Titiotus - female Rainbow-legged Spider - Titiotus Spider identification please. - Titiotus Spider identification please. - Titiotus 9058295 spider - Titiotus Southern California- titiotus sp? - Titiotus Brown recluse? - Titiotus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Zoropsidae (False Wolf Spiders & Wandering Spiders)
Genus Titiotus

Numbers

16 species in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).(1)

Size

Adult body length (excluding legs) of females: 11-21mm; males 8-17mm.(2)

Identification

The unusual character combination of three claws plus claw tufts readily separates members of Titiotus and their closest relatives from most other North American spiders. Males of Titiotus differ from those of the other three closely related genera (Liocranoides, Anachemmis, and Socalchemmis) by having a tibial apophysis consisting of three or four prongs (rather than just one or two); females differ by having a wide median septum that usually occupies more than two-thirds of the epigynal width.(2)

Range

All species are only known from the state of California. See Platnick & Ubick 2008(2) for maps. See pages 7, 13, 30.

List of described species:
T. californicus
T. costa
T. flavescens
T. fresno
T. gertschi
T. hansii
T. heberti
T. humboldt
T. icenoglei
T. madera
T. marin
T. roadsend
T. shantzi
T. shasta
T. tahoe
T. tulare

Works Cited

1.The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick
2.A revision of the endemic Californian spider genus Titiotus Simon (Araneae, Tengellidae)
Norman Platnick & Darrell Ubick. 2008. American Museum Novitates 3608:1-33.
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 21 October, 2006 - 10:45pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Bbarnd, mhedin, Mandy Howe
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 10:53pm

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