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Holarchaeidae
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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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Holarchaeid spiders are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in microhabitats with consistently high humidity.
Holarchaea Forster, 1955
- Holarchaea globosa (Hickman, 1981) (Tasmania)
- Holarchaea novaeseelandiae (Forster, 1949) (New Zealand)
- 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.
- Holarchaeid Spiders (Detailed description, with images of preserved specimens)
