Tetrablemma

Not to be confused with tetralemma.

Tetrablemma
T. ziyaoensis, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetrablemmidae
Genus: Tetrablemma
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873[1]
Species

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Synonyms

Tetrablemma is a widespread genus of armored spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873.[3] It only has four eyes; an unusual trait for spiders, found only here and in some species of Caponiidae, though the two are not closely related. The eyes are large, but unequal in size, closely grouped around the center of the prosoma that rises in a somewhat of a cone shape from the abdomen. They have four closely positioned spinnerets enclosed in a corneous casing.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WSC_g3268 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Brignoli, P. M. (1976). "On some recent papers about Indian spiders". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 3 (8): 211–213.
  3. ^ a b Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873). "On some new genera and species of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 41 (1): 112–129.