Trochanteriidae

Flat spiders Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Platyoides species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879 [1]
Diversity
6 genera, 52 species
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

Main article: List of Trochanteriidae species

As of September 2025 ^[update] , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: ^[1]

• Doliomalus Simon, 1897 – Chile
• Hemicloea Thorell, 1870 – Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia
• Plator Simon, 1880 – China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Japan
• Platyoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891 – Africa, incl. Seychelles and Madagascar
• Trochanteria Karsch, 1878 – Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
• Vectius Simon, 1897 – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia

See also

• List of Trochanteriidae species

References

1. "Family: Trochanteriidae Karsch, 1879". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
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

• Picture of a Platyoides sp. from South Africa