HAHNIIDAE Bertkau, 1878

Nombre común en ingles: Comb-Tailed Spiders

Nombre común en castellano: Se desconoce

Familias similares:

Género tipo: Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841

Diagnosis: Small araneomorph spiders; three tarsal claws; ecribellate; entelegyne; eight eyes; situated in transverse row; tracheal spiracles open midway on abdomen.

Caracteres descriptivos: Caparazón: than wide, narrowed in cephalic region; fovea short with striae. Esternón: truncated anteriorly; posterior apex narrowing to a point. Ojos: eight; in two rows (4:4); equal in size; eye rows slightly procurved. Quelíceros: with two teeth on each side of cheliceral furrow; lateral side of chelicerae with a stridulating organ composed of a series of ridges more strongly developed in males. Piezas bucales: labium wider than long. Patas: three claws; short, robust, with few setae; trichobothria in a row. Palpo femenino: with mostly toothless claw. Abdomen: oval. Hileras: in a single transverse row; posterior spinnerets long, two-segmented; colulus paired. Sistema respiratorio: two booklungs; tracheal spiracle midway between genital opening and base of spinnerets. Genitalia: entelegyne; epigyne flat and simple, entrance ducts usually strongly coiled; male palp with tibial apophysis long and curved; patella usually with a basal hook; embolus thin; median apophysis reduced. Tamaño corporal: 3-6 mm. Color: carapace light to dark brown with dark pattern, margined with black; abdomen usually with a double row of oblique pale markings on a grey background; general appearance often juvenile-like.

Estatus taxonómico: Hahniidae was established by Bertkau (1878). However, Simon (1897) only recognised it as a subfamily within the Agelenidae. Lehtinen (1967) widened the limits of Hahniidae, recognised three subfamilies, Hahniidae, Cryphoecinae and Cybaeolinae, and placed them within the superfamily Amaurobioidea. However, Coddington & Levi (1991) placed them in them in the Dictynoidea, but the placement of the family remains doubtful.

Distribución: mundial.

Estilo de vida: Contruct delicate sheet webs near the soil surface. Commonly found in forested areas.

Bibliografía:

  • Bennett, R.G. 2005c. Hahniidae. pp. 95-101 in Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P.E. & Roth, V. (Eds) 2005. The Spiders of North America. An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society.

  • Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. & Jocqué, R. 1997. African Spiders: An Identification Manual. Plant Protection Res. Inst. Handbook, no. 9, Pretoria, 392 pp.

  • Forster, R.R. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Mus. Bull. 3: 1-184.

  • Jocqué, R. & Bosmans, R. 1982. A new Hahnia from Ivory Coast with a note on stridulating organs in the Hahniidae (Araneida). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 5: 319-323.

  • Lehtinen, P.T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 4: 199-468.

  • Opell, B.D. & Beatty, J.A. 1976. The Nearctic Hahniidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 147: 393-433.

          5 géneros y 10 especies presentes en la Península Ibérica:

  • Antistea Simon, 1898

                      - A. elegans (Blackwall, 1841)
  • Cryphoeca Thorell, 1870

                      - C. silvicola (C. L. Koch, 1834)
  • Dirksia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942

                      - D. pyrenaea (Simon, 1898)
  • Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841

                      - H. candida Simon, 1875
                      - H. hauseri Brignoli, 1878
                      - H. helveola Simon, 1875
                      - H. montana (Blackwall, 1841)
                      - H. nava (Blackwall, 1841)
                      - H. ononidum Simon, 1875
                      - H. petrobia Simon, 1875
  • Iberina Simon, 1881

                      - I. mazarredoi Simon, 1881
 
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