Psilodercidae

{{Short description|Family of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Flexicrurum minutum (10.3897-zookeys.855.34383) Figure 7.jpg

| image_caption = Flexicrurum minutum

| taxon = Psilodercidae

| authority = Machado, 1951

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| diversity = 11 genera, 120 species

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Psilodercidae is a family of spiders first described as a subfamily of Ochyroceratidae by Machado in 1951{{cite journal| last=Machado| first=A. de B.| year=1951| title=Ochyroceratidae (Araneae) de l'Angola| journal=Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola| volume=8}} and raised to family rank by J. Wunderlich in 2008.{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J| year=2008| title=The dominance of ancient spider families of the Araneae: Haplogynae in the Cretaceous, and the late diversification of the advanced ecribellate spiders of the Entelegynae after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary extinction events, with descriptions of new families| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| volume=5| pages=524–674, 802–813}} These spiders can be distinguished by the "segestriid positioning" of their six eyes, the absence of leg bristles, strong apical bristles on the cymbium, and several pairs of spermathecae in females.

Genera

{{Main|List of Psilodercidae species}}

{{as of|2019|04}}, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera,{{cite web| title=Family: Psilodercidae Machado, 1951| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-04-23| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/128}} but it is relatively unstudied and may change as more information becomes available. In particular, Wunderlick remarked that Psiloderces is too broad and should be split into smaller, more distinct groups.

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