Tube-dwelling spider
| Tube-dwelling spiders Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Segestria florentina | |
| Ariadna bilineata from South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Segestriidae Simon, 1893 |
| Diversity | |
| 5 genera, 181 species | |
| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
Tube-dwelling spiders (Segestriidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1893. It consists of five genera: two large and widespread, Segestria and Ariadna, and three smaller genera, Citharoceps, Gippsicola and Indoseges. They are haplogyne spiders, related to the Dysderidae and placed in clade or superfamily Dysderoidea.