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Coneweb spider

{{Short description|Family of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Coneweb spiders

| image = Diguetia canities.jpg

| image_caption = Diguetia canities

| taxon = Diguetidae

| authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899

| range_map = Distribution.diguetidae.1.png

| diversity = 2 genera, 16 species

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = {{linked genus list

|Diguetia|Simon, 1895

|Segestrioides|Keyserling, 1883}}

}}

Coneweb spiders (Diguetidae) are six-eyed haplogyne spiders that live in tangled space webs, fashioning a cone-like central retreat where they hide and lay eggs. It is a small family, containing only two genera split between a range in the Southwestern United States and Mexico and a range in South America. Members of the genus Diguetia usually build their webs in shrubs or between cactus pads. They have the same eye arrangement as the venomous recluse spiders (family Sicariidae).

Taxonomy

The group was first created by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1899 as the subfamily Diguetiinae of the family Scytodidae.{{cite book |last1=Pickard-Cambridge |first1=F.O. |year=1899 |editor1-last=Godman |editor1-first=Frederick Ducane |editor2-last=Salvin |editor2-first=Osbert |contribution=Subfam. Diguetiinae |title=Biologia Centrali-Americana: Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones II |page=53 |access-date=2016-05-13 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/575625 |name-list-style=amp }} It was raised to the rank of family by Willis J. Gertsch using the spelling "Diguetidae".{{cite journal |last1=Platnick |first1=N.I. |date=1989 |title=A revision of the spider genus Segestrioides (Araneae, Diguetidae) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2940 |pages=1–9}} Pickard-Cambridge's use of double "i" is correct according to Article 29.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,{{Citation |last1=ICZN |date=1999 |contribution=Art. 29.3 |title=International Code of Zoological Nomenclature |publication-place=London, UK |publisher=The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature |edition=4th |contribution-url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/includes/page.jsp?article=29&nfv=#3 |access-date=2016-05-13}} since the name is based on the genus Diguetia. In 2004, Jörg Wonderlich suggested reducing it again to a subfamily, this time of Plectreuridae.{{cite journal |last1=Wunderlich |first1=J. |date=2004 |title=Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the superfamily Dysderoidea in Baltic and Dominican amber, with revised family diagnoses |journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie |volume=3 |pages=633–746 }} However, it is still sometimes considered a subfamily of the Plectreuridae.

Genera and species

{{Main|List of Diguetidae species}}

{{as of|2019|04}}, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:{{cite web| title=Family: Diguetidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-04-20| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/28}}

=''Diguetia''=

Diguetia Simon, 1895

=''Segestrioides''=

Segestrioides Keyserling, 1883

See also

References

{{Wikispecies|Diguetidae}}

{{Reflist}}

{{Araneae}}

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Category:Diguetidae

Category:Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge