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midget ground weavers
Ochyroceratidae
Ochyroceratidae is a six-eyed spider family, with almost 200 described species in nine genera.
They are common inhabitants of caves and the tropical forest litter of South Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and South America. Considered an ecological counterpart of the Linyphiidae of the northern temperate zone, species are especially diverse in the Indo-Pacific region.
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
Theotima
genusTheotima
Speocera
genusSpeocera
Ochyrocera
genusOchyrocera
Roche
genusRoche
Dundocera
genusDundocera
Euso
genusEuso
Fageicera
genusFageicera
Psiloochyrocera
genusPsiloochyrocera
Lundacera
genusLundacera
Ouette
genusOuette
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 172236.