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trechaleid spiders
Trechaleidae
Trechaleidae (tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. It includes about 140 described species in 18 genera, mostly in the New World tropics.
Other names for the family are longlegged water spiders and fishing spiders (although members of the genus Dolomedes are also commonly called fishing spiders). The family Trechaleidae is closely related to Pisauridae (nursery web spiders) and Lycosidae (wolf spiders), and the three families are sometimes referred to as the lycosid group.
18 branches of this family, most-observed first
Bromeliad Spiders
genusCupiennius
Trechalea
genusTrechalea
Syntrechalea
genusSyntrechalea
Neoctenus
genusNeoctenus
Trechaleoides
genusTrechaleoides
Hesydrus
genusHesydrus
Paradossenus
genusParadossenus
Dossenus
genusDossenus
Enna
genusEnna
Paratrechalea
genusParatrechalea
Troglotrechalea
genusTroglotrechalea
Barrisca
genusBarrisca
Rhoicinus
genusRhoicinus
Dyrines
genusDyrines
Shinobius
genusShinobius
Amapalea
genusAmapalea
Caricelea
genusCaricelea
Heidrunea
genusHeidrunea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 142643.