Trechaleidae

Trechaleidae; Temporal range:
	Syntrechalea sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trechaleidae; Simon, 1890[1]
Diversity
	16 genera, 140 species

Trechaleidae (tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890,[2] and includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.[3] Other names for the family are longlegged water spiders and fishing spiders.[4]

Genera

As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]

Amapalea Silva & Lise, 2006 – Brazil
Barrisca Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – South America, Panama
Caricelea Silva & Lise, 2007 – Peru
Cupiennius Simon, 1891 – Mexico to northwestern South America
Dossenus Simon, 1898 – Trinidad, South America
Dyrines Simon, 1903 – South America, Panama
Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 – South America, Central America, Mexico
Heidrunea Brescovit & Höfer, 1994 – Brazil
Hesydrus Simon, 1898 – South America, Central America
Neoctenus Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Guyana, Peru
Paradossenus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – South America, Nicaragua
Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
Rhoicinus Simon, 1898 – South America
Shinobius Yaginuma, 1991 – Japan
Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – South America, Mexico
Trechalea Thorell, 1869 – Trinidad, South America, North America, Central America
Trechaleoides Carico, 2005 – South America

"Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
Simon, E. (1890). Etudes arachnologiques.
Yaginuma, T. (1991). "A new genus, Shinobius, of the Japanese pisaurid spider (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Acta Arachnologica. 40: 1–6. doi:10.2476/asjaa.40.1.
"Family Trechaleidae". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2022-05-26.

Höfer, H. & A. D. Brescovit. On the spider genus Rhoicinus (Araneae, Trechaleidae) in a central Amazonian inundation forest. J. Arachnol. 22: 54-59. PDF
Carico, J. E. (1993b). Revision of the genus Trechalea Thorell (Araneae, Trechaleidae) with a review of the taxonomy of the Trechaleidae and Pisauridae of the Western Hemisphere. J. Arachnol. 21: 226-257. PDF

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