Mysmenidae

Taxonavigation

Mysmena wawuensis

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Mysmenidae
Genera: Anjouanella – Brasilionata – Calodipoena – Calomyspoena – Chanea – Chimena – Gaoligonga – ?Iardinis – Isela (Griswold) – Itapua – Kekenboschiella – Kilifina – Leviola – Maymena – Mengmena – Microdipoena – Mosu – Mysmena – Mysmenella – Mysmeniola – Mysmenopsis – ?Phricotelus – Simaoa – Tamasesia – Trogloneta – Yamaneta

Name

Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928

References

• Feng C.C., Miller, J.A., Lin, Y.C. & Shu, Y.F. 2019. Further study of two Chinese cave spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with description of a new genus. ZooKeys 870: 77-100. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.870.35971. Reference page. 
• Griswold, C.E., 1985: Isela okuncana, a new genus and species of kleptoparasitic spider from southern Africa (Araneae: Mysmenidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 27: 207—217.
• Lin, Y.; Li, S. 2008: Mysmenid Spiders of China (Araneae: Mysmenidae). Annales zoologici, 58: 487–520.
• Lin, Y.C & Li, S.Q 2013: Two new species of the genera Mysmena and Trogloneta (Mysmenidae, Araneae) from Southwestern China. ZooKeys 303: 33–51. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.303.4808 Reference page. 
• Lin, Y-C. & Li, S-Q. 2022. Chimena gen. nov., a new spider genus (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species and a new combination. Zookeys 1125ː 69–86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1125.85741 Reference page. 
• Lin, Y.C & Li, S.Q 2013a: Five new minute orb-weaving spiders of the family Mysmenidae from China (Araneae). Zootaxa 3670(4): 449–481. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.4.3 Reference page. 
• Lin, Y.C. & Li, S.-Q. 2014: Mysmenidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from Vietnam. Zootaxa 3826(1): 169–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.1.5 Reference page. 
• Lopardo, L.; Giribet, G.; Hormiga, G. 2011: Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses—a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture. Cladistics, 27(3): 278–330. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.x
• Miller, J.; Griswold, C.; Yin, C.M. 2009: The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys, 11: 9–195. Abstract PDF
• Paquin, P.; Vink, C.J.; Dupérré, N. 2010: Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. ISBN 9780478347050
• Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
• Zhang, Q-Q., Li, S-Q. & Lin, Y-C. 2022. Taxonomic study on Mysmenidae spiders (Mysmenidae, Araneae) from Xishuangbanna of Yunnan, China. Zookeys 1124ː 59–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1124.85952 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

日本語: コツブグモ科
한국어: 깨알거미과
中文: 密蛛科

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