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Family NESTICIDAE Simon, 1894

  • Nesticidae Simon, 1894.

 

Introduction

These are small rare spiders known only from the coastal tropics.

 

Diagnosis

Nesticidae resemble linyphiids with which they share the rebordered labium, a feature lacking in the Theridiidae with which they share the serrated line of bristles on the ventral edge of tarsi IV.