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Genus of spiders

Flexicrurum
Flexicrurum minutum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Psilodercidae
Genus: Flexicrurum
Tong & Li, 2007
Species
Location of Hainan, China

Flexicrurum is a genus of spiders from China similar to the genera Althepus and Leclercera. Tong and Li originally placed the genus in Ochyroceratidae Still, Tong later moved it to Psilodercidae. Males are generally smaller than 2 mm, but the size of females is unknown. The name is derived from the Latin flex "curved", and crur "leg", referring to the inner turned palpal tibia of the male. As of 2019 three described species have been found in caves of Hainan Island.

References

  1. ^ Tong, Y. F.; Li, S. Q. (2007). "First records of the family Ochyroceratidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China, with descriptions of a new genus and eight new species". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 55: 63–76.
  2. Tong, Y. F. (2013). "Haplogynae spiders from Hainan, China". Science Press, Beijing: 19.
  3. "Family: Psilodercidae Machado,1951". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
Taxon identifiers
Flexicrurum


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