Family: HERSILIIDAE Thorell, 1870

longspinneret spiders

Similar Families

Family Name Authority

Thorell, T. 1869. On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta reg. Soc. sci. Upsaliae (3) 7: 1-108.

Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 2 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Neotama Baehr & Baehr, 1993

2	Yabisi Rheims & Brescovit, 2004

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

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