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Philodromidae (running crab spiders)

Wikipedia Abstract

Philodromidae is a family of spiders commonly known as philodromid crab spiders or running crab spiders. This family is superficially similar to the "true" crab spiders in the family Thomisidae. However, studies have shown that these families are not as closely related as previously thought. Unlike thomisids, philodromids tend to have few true setae (hairs or spines) on their bodies. They also lack the congruent eye tubercles of some thomisids. The second legs are usually the longer of the four pairs of walking legs and in the genus Ebo this is quite extreme, with the second pair of legs in some species twice as long as the first pair.
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Genus

Apollophanes (16)
Balticodromus (1)
Berlandiella (7)
Celerrimus (1)
Cleocnemis (14)
Cretadromus (1)
Ebo (13)
Eminella (1)
Fageia (4)
Filiolella (1)
Gephyrellula (1)
Gephyrina (5)
Gephyrota (7)
Halodromus (6)
Hirriusa (3)
Medela (1)
Metacleocnemis (1)
Pagiopalus (4)
Paracleocnemis (2)
Pedinopistha (6)
Petrichus (19)
Philodromidites (1)
Philodromops (1)
Philodromus (Crab spider) (219)
Procleocnemis (1)
Psellonus (1)
Pseudopsellonus (1)
Pulchellodromus (13)
Rhysodromus (28)
Senoculifer (1)
Suemus (5)
Thanatus (Crab spider) (101)
Tibellus (Crab spider) (51)
Tibitanus (2)
Titanebo (14)
Vacchellia (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0