Physoglenidae

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Physoglenidae
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Nomaua sp. in New Zealand
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male Pahoroides sp.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Petrunkevitch, 1928
Diversity
13 genera, 72 species
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blue: reported countries (WSC)
green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist)

Physoglenidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1928 as a subfamily of Pholcidae. [1] It was later moved to Synotaxidae [2] until a study in 2016 showed that they formed a distinct clade. [3]

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Genera

As of January 2026, this family includes thirteen genera and 72 species: [4]

References

  1. ↑ Petrunkevitch, A. (1928). "Systema Aranearum". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 29.
  2. ↑ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193.
  3. ↑ Dimitrov, Dimitar; et al. (2016). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (3): 221–250. doi: 10.1111/cla.12165 . PMID   34715728. S2CID   34962403 . Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Family Physoglenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-17.
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