Family SELENOPIDAE Simon, 1897
Compiler and date details
Valerie Todd Davies (including the Lycosidae by R.J. McKay), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction
Very flat, medium-sized, laterigrade spiders found under bark and stones in warmer regions of the world. Two claws and claw tufts present. Carapace wider than long; sternum circular. Six eyes in anterior row and two (PLE) behind. PME between AME and ALE. PLE largest, situated behind ALE. Colulus absent. Trichobothria in two rows on metatarsi and tarsi. The Australian specimens examined have the third leg longest and the first leg shortest. Tarsal scopulae sparse or absent.
Diagnosis
The Selenopidae are extremely flattened spiders with a characteristic eye pattern in which the posterior eye row is composed of six eyes, and the anterior eye row is composed of the anterior lateral eyes.