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Encyclopedia > Ammotrechidae
Ammotrechidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Solifugae
Family: Ammotrechidae
Genera

see Text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Orders Acarina Amblypygi Araneae Opiliones Palpigradi Pseudoscorpionida Ricinulei Schizomida Scorpiones Solifugae Uropygi The arachnids, Arachnida, are a class of invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. ... Genera Eremobates Syndaesia A Solifugid (plural form Solifugae) is an arachnid belonging to the order Solifugae. ...

Ammotrechidae solifuges are distributed in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. They include 22 genera and at least 83 species. Members of this family can be distinguished from members of other families by the absence of claws on tarsi of leg I, tarsal segmentation 1-2-2-(2-4), pedipalps with pairs of lateroventral spines, and by males having an immovable flagellum on the mesal face of each chelicerum.


Taxonomy

This family is subdivided in 5 subfamilies and 22 genera.

  • Ammotrechinae (North, Central and South America)
    • Ammotrecha
    • Ammotrechella
    • Ammotrechesta
    • Ammotrechinus
    • Ammotrechona
    • Ammotrechula
    • Antillotrecha
    • Campostrecha
    • Dasycleobis
    • Neocleobis
    • Pseudocleobis
  • Mortolinae (Argentina)
    • Mortola
  • Nothopuginae (Argentina)
    • Nothopuga
  • Oltacolinae (Argentina)
    • Oltacola
  • Saronominae (Central and South America)
    • Branchia
    • Chinchippus
    • Innesa
    • Procleobis
    • Saronomus
  • Subfamily not assigned
    • Chileotrecha
    • Eutrecha
    • Xenotrecha

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Only two families, Ammotrechidae and Eremobatidae, occur in the western hemisphere and only Ammotrechidae is represented in eastern North America.
The first pair of legs is much smaller and more slender than the others and is used as a second pair of antennae (Fig 1).
Species of Ammotrechidae do not have claws on this leg but eremobatids do.
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