Trechaleidae


Trechaleidae 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. The family Trechaleidae is closely related to Pisauridae and Lycosidae, and the three families are sometimes referred to as the lycosid group.

Distribution

All members of this family live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.

Genera

, this family includes eighteen genera and 137 species: