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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Superfamily: | Palpimanoidea |
| Family: | Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873 |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 14 species | |
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Stenochilidae is a family of southeast Asian araneomorph spiders that produce ecribellate silk. First described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1873, it now contains twelve described species in two genera.
Species
As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera and species:
Colopea Simon, 1893
- Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar, Thailand
- Colopea lehtineni Zheng, Marusik & Li, 2009 — China
- Colopea malayana Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
- Colopea pusilla (Simon, 1893) — Philippines
- Colopea romantica Lehtinen, 1982 — Bali
- Colopea silvestris Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
- Colopea tuberculata Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — Fiji
- Colopea unifoveata Lehtinen, 1982 — Borneo
- Colopea virgata Lehtinen, 1982 — Thailand, Vietnam
- Colopea xerophila Lehtinen, 1982 — New Guinea
Stenochilus O. P-Cambridge, 1870
- Stenochilus crocatus Simon, 1884 — Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka
- Stenochilus hobsoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 — India
- Stenochilus scutulatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 — India
See also
- List of Stenochilidae species
- Penney, D. (2004). "Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (4): 579–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-31.
References
- Griswold, C.E.; Coddington, J.A.; Platnick, N.I.; Forster, R.R. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63.
- Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders.
- "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
- Platnick, N.I.; Shadab, M.U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2556).
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