Micropholcommatinae
| Micropholcommatinae | |
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| Parapua punctata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Anapidae |
| Subfamily: | Micropholcommatinae Hickman, 1943 |
The Micropholcommatinae are a subfamily of araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae. They were previously treated as the family Micropholcommatidae.[1][2] Micropholcommatins are extremely small, with body lengths typically between 0.5 and 2 mm. They are usually found among leaf litter or moss.[3]
Distribution
[edit]Many genera are endemic to New Zealand and Australia, with others found also in South America.
Taxonomy
[edit]The families Micropholcommatidae and Textricellidae were synonymized with the Symphytognathidae by Forster in 1959, but again split from it in 1977.[4] Later they were considered to be only one family, namely Micropholcommatidae, by Platnick & Forster in 1986.[5] They were synonymized with Anapidae by Schütt in 2003[6] and by Lopa et al. in 2011,[1][2] a change that has been accepted by the World Spider Catalog.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lopardo, L.; Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2011). "Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses — a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture". Cladistics. 27 (3): 278–330. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.x. PMID 34875780. S2CID 85647657.
- ^ a b Hormiga, Gustavo & Griswold, Charles E. (2014). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders". Annual Review of Entomology. 59 (1): 487–512. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162046. PMID 24160416.
- ^ Rix, Michael; Harvey, Mark & Roberts, J. Dale (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (3): 1031–1048. Bibcode:2008MolPE..46.1031R. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.001. PMID 18162409.
- ^ Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. (1977). "A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2619): 1–29. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. (1986). "On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2854): 1–9. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ Schütt, K. (2003). "Phylogeny of Symphytognathidae". Zoologica Scripta. 32: 129–151. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00103.x. S2CID 84908326.
- ^ "Family: Anapidae Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
Further reading
[edit]- Forster, R.R. (1959). "The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269–329.
- Griswold, C.E., Ramírez, M.J., Coddington, J.A. & Platnick, N.I. (2005) "Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56 Suppl. 2: 1–324.
- Penney, David; Dierick, Manuel; Cnudde, Veerle; Masschaele, Bert; Vlassenbroeck, Jelle; van Hoorebeke, Luc & Jacobs, Patric (2007). "First fossil Micropholcommatidae (Araneae), imaged in Eocene Paris amber using X-Ray Computed Tomography." Zootaxa 1612: 47-53. PDF[permanent dead link] Abstract
