Trochanteriidae

Flat spiders Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Platyoides walteri from South Africa
Vectius niger
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879 [1]
Diversity
6 genera, 51 species
blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist)
Synonyms
Hemicloeinae [2] Platoridae [3]

Trochanteriidae is a family of spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879 ^[4] containing about 52 species in 6 genera. ^[1] The family can be found in Oceania, South America, Africa and Asia. ^[1]

Distribution

Three genera are found in South America. Members of the genus Hemicloea are restricted to Oceania, while genus Platyoides is found in large parts of Africa. Plator is found from Pakistan to Japan. ^{[1] [5]}

Genera

• 
  Doliomalus cimicoides
• 
  Hemicloea rogenhoferi
• 
  Platyoides pirie

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this family includes six genera and 51 species: ^[1]

• Doliomalus Simon, 1897 – Chile
• Hemicloea Thorell, 1870 – Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand. Introduced to New Zealand
• Plator Simon, 1880 – China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan
• Platyoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Africa, Canary Islands. Introduced to Australia
• Trochanteria Karsch, 1878 – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
• Vectius Simon, 1897 – South America

References

1. "Family Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-18.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1987). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen.
3. Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates (2978).
4. Karsch, F. (1879). "Arachnologische Beitrage". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. 52: 534–562.
5. Platnick, N. I. (2002). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 271: 1–244. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2. S2CID   86321070.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Trochanteriidae at iNaturalist