Not formally circumscribed but male pedipalp with specific trajectory of the spermatic duct and female epigyne with ventral scap and weak, but sclerotised fertilisation ducts.
Minute Clasping Weavers
Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928
Type genus: Mysmena Simon, 1894
(after Framenau et al. 2014): The Minute Clasping-weavers (family Mysmenidae) include tiny symphytognathoid spiders. Males have a clasping spine on the metatarsus and/or the tibia of the first leg and females have a characteristic dark dot on the proximal-ventral surface of the first femur. In addition, the eyes of males are often elevated on long turrets. The soft abdomen is higher than long and often has an elevation or extension protruding from the back.(after Framenau et al. 2014):
Publications
Framenau VW, Baehr BC, Zborowski P (2014): A guide to the spiders of Australia. New Holland Publishers, 1 - 448
Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
- Anamidae
- Araneidae
- Barychelidae
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Clubionidae
- Corinnidae
- Deinopidae
- Desidae
- Dictynidae
- Filistatidae
- Gnaphosidae
- Halonoproctidae
- Hersiliidae
- Idiopidae
- Lamponidae
- Linyphiidae
- Lycosidae
- Mimetidae
- Miturgidae
- Mysmenidae
- Oecobiidae
- Oonopidae
- Oxyopidae
- Philodromidae
- Prodidomidae
- Salticidae
- Scytodidae
- Segestriidae
- Selenopidae
- Sparassidae
- Theridiidae
- Thomisidae
- Trachelidae
- Trachycosmidae
- Trochanteriidae
- Uloboridae
- Zodariidae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda