Telemidae

Long-legged cave spiders
Temporal range:
Telema tenella
Usofila flava
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Telemidae
Fage, 1913
Diversity
16 genera, 113 species
blue: reported countries (WSC)
green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist)

Telemidae, also known as long-legged cave spiders, is a family of small haplogyne spiders with about 100 described species in sixteen genera. Most are cave-dwelling spiders with six eyes, though some do not have any eyes at all.

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