Family PSECHRIDAE Simon, 1890
Compiler and date details
Valerie Todd Davies (including the Lycosidae by R.J. McKay), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction
Large, 3-clawed, cribellate spiders with claw tufts. Cribellum divided. Abdomen long. Leg I much longers than rest. Calamistrum more than one row of bristles. Row of trichobothria on metatarsi and tarsi. Juvenile Fecenia ochracea build a conical web with a central detritus-covered retreat; at a later stage this is replaced by a 'planar pseudo-orb' in which a curled leaf is incorporated as a retreat.
Diagnosis
Spiders of the family Psechridae are large, cribellate spiders with 3 claws and movable claw tufts.