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The 'Holarchaeidae' are a spider family with only two described species in one genus.
They are only up to 1.5mm in size and shiny black to beige in color. Together with the Uloboridae and the Mesothelae, they are the only spiders known to lack venom glands.

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Distribution

Species

See also

References

External links

Distribution

Holarchaeid spiders are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in microhabitats with consistently high humidity.

Species

''Holarchaea'' Forster, 1955

★ ''Holarchaea globosa'' (Hickman, 1981) (Tasmania)

★ ''Holarchaea novaeseelandiae'' (Forster, 1949) (New Zealand)

See also

★ List of Holarchaeidae species

References

★ Forster, R. R. & N. I. Platnick (1984). A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). ''Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist.'' 178:1-106. Abstract - PDF (60Mb)

★ Meier J. & White J. (eds) {1995). Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons. Boca Raton: ''CRC Press''.

External links

★ Holarchaeid Spiders (Detailed description, with images of preserved specimens)