Micropholcommatinae

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| image_caption = Parapua punctata

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| authority = Hickman, 1943

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The Micropholcommatinae are a subfamily of araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae. They were previously treated as the family Micropholcommatidae. Micropholcommatins are extremely small, with body lengths typically between 0.5 and 2 mm. They are usually found among leaf litter or moss.

Distribution

Many genera are endemic to New Zealand and Australia, with others found also in South America.

Taxonomy

The families Micropholcommatidae and Textricellidae were synonymized with the Symphytognathidae by Forster in 1959, but again split from it in 1977. Later they were considered to be only one family, namely Micropholcommatidae, by Platnick & Forster in 1986. They were synonymized with Anapidae by Schütt in 2003 and by Lopa et al. in 2011, a change that has been accepted by the World Spider Catalog.

References

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{{Cite journal |last1=Hormiga |first1=Gustavo |last2=Griswold |first2=Charles E. |year=2014 |title=Systematics, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Orb-Weaving Spiders |journal=Annual Review of Entomology |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=487–512 |doi=10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162046 |pmid=24160416 |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}

{{Cite journal |last1=Lopardo |first1=L. |last2=Giribet |first2=G. |last3=Hormiga |first3=G. |date=2011 |title=Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses — a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture |journal=Cladistics |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=278–330 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.x |pmid=34875780 |s2cid=85647657 |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}

{{Cite journal |last1=Forster |first1=R.R. |last2=Platnick |first2=N.I. |date=1977 |title=A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2619 |pages=1–29 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5471/1/N2619.pdf |access-date=2017-03-03 |name-list-style=amp }}

{{Cite journal |last1=Platnick |first1=N.I. |last2=Forster |first2=R.R. |date=1986 |title=On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2854 |pages=1–9 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5199/1/N2854.pdf |access-date=2017-03-03 |name-list-style=amp }}

{{Cite journal |last1=Rix |first1=Michael |last2=Harvey |first2=Mark |last3=Roberts |first3=J. Dale |date=2008 |title=Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=1031–1048 |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.001|pmid=18162409 |bibcode=2008MolPE..46.1031R }}

{{Cite journal |last1=Schütt |first1=K. |date=2003 |title=Phylogeny of Symphytognathidae |journal=Zoologica Scripta |volume=32 |pages=129–151 |doi=10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00103.x|s2cid=84908326 |doi-access=free }}

{{cite web |title=Family: Anapidae Simon, 1895 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/6 |access-date=2017-03-03 }}

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Micropholcommatinae

Distribution

Taxonomy

References

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