Coneweb spider
| Coneweb spiders | |
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| Diguetia canities | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Diguetidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 15 species | |
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Coneweb spiders (Diguetidae) are six-eyed haplogyne spiders that live in tangled space webs, fashioning a cone-like central retreat where they hide and lay eggs. It is a small family, containing only two genera split between a range in the Southwestern United States and Mexico and a range in South America.[1] Members of the genus Diguetia usually build their webs in shrubs or between cactus pads. They have the same eye arrangement as the venomous recluse spiders (family Sicariidae).
Taxonomy
[edit]The group was first created by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1899 as the subfamily Diguetiinae of the family Scytodidae.[1][2] It was raised to the rank of family by Willis J. Gertsch using the spelling "Diguetidae".[3] Pickard-Cambridge's use of double "i" is correct according to Article 29.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature,[4] since the name is based on the genus Diguetia. In 2004, Jörg Wunderlich suggested reducing it again to a subfamily, this time of Plectreuridae.[5] However, it is still sometimes considered a subfamily of the Plectreuridae.[1]
Genera and species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this family includes two genera:[1]
Diguetia
[edit]- Diguetia albolineata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – United States, Mexico
- Diguetia andersoni Gertsch, 1958 – United States
- Diguetia balandra Jiménez, Cardiel & Chamé-Vázquez, 2022 – Mexico
- Diguetia canities (McCook, 1890) – United States, Mexico (type species)
- D. c. mulaiki Gertsch, 1958 – United States
- Diguetia catamarquensis (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
- Diguetia dialectica Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
- Diguetia imperiosa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940 – United States, Mexico
- Diguetia mojavea Gertsch, 1958 – United States
- Diguetia propinqua (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
- Diguetia signata Gertsch, 1958 – United States, Mexico
- Diguetia stridulans Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
Segestrioides
[edit]Segestrioides Keyserling, 1883
- Segestrioides badia (Simon, 1903) – Brazil
- Segestrioides bicolor Keyserling, 1883 – Peru (type species)
- Segestrioides copiapo Platnick, 1989 – Chile
- Segestrioides tofo Platnick, 1989 – Chile
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Family: Diguetidae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. (1899). "Subfam. Diguetiinae". In Godman, Frederick Ducane & Salvin, Osbert (eds.). Biologia Centrali-Americana: Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones II. p. 53. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
- ^ Platnick, N.I. (1989). "A revision of the spider genus Segestrioides (Araneae, Diguetidae)". American Museum Novitates (2940): 1–9.
- ^ ICZN (1999), "Art. 29.3", International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th ed.), London, UK: The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, retrieved 2016-05-13
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (2004). "Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the superfamily Dysderoidea in Baltic and Dominican amber, with revised family diagnoses". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3: 633–746.
