Crevice weaver

Crevice weavers
Temporal range:
male Kukulcania hibernalis
Filistatid web
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Ausserer, 1867
Diversity
18 genera, 192 species
blue: reported countries (WSC)
green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist)

Crevice weaver spiders (Filistatidae) are cribellate spiders with features that have been regarded as "primitive" for araneomorph spiders. They are weavers of funnel or tube webs. The family contains 18 genera and more than 120 described species worldwide.

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