| Cyatholipidae Temporal range:
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| Tekelloides flavonotatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Cyatholipidae Simon, 1894 |
| Diversity | |
| 23 genera, 59 species | |
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Cyatholipidae is a family of spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1894.[1] Most live in moist montane forest, though several species, including Scharffia rossi, live in dry savannah regions. They occur in Africa, including Madagascar,[2] New Zealand and Australia, and one species (Pokennips dentipes) in Jamaica.[3] Most members of this family hang beneath sheet webs. Fossil species occur in the Eocene aged Bitterfield and Baltic Ambers, suggesting a wider geographic distribution in the past.
- ^ Simon, E. (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ^ Griswold, C. E. (1997). "The Spider Family Cyatholipidae in Madagascar (Araneae, Araneoidea)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 25 (1): 53–83. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2006-07-10.
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