List of six-eyed spiders

Six-eyed spiders are spiders that, unlike most spider species, lack the principal pair of eyes, leaving them with only six eyes instead of the usual eight.^[1]

List

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Araneomorphae

Haplogynae

Scytodoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

Drymusidae
Periegopidae
Scytodes^[2]
Sicariidae^[3]

Leptonetoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

Leptonetidae
Ochyroceratidae
Telemidae—predominantly six-eyed, but some species with none.^[4]

Pholcoidea

Diguetidae—family of six-eyed spiders
Pholcidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six.^[5]

Pholcinae

Belisana

Belisana aliformis (at Wikispecies)^[6]
Belisana huberi (at Wikispecies)^[7]
Belisana lamellaris (at Wikispecies)^[8]
Belisana zhangi (at Wikispecies)^[9]

Khorata

Khorata diaoluoshanensis (at Wikispecies) ^[10]

Caponioidea

Caponiidae—family with species with 8, 6, 4 and 2 eyes and some with a variable number of eyes
Tetrablemmidae

Dysderoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders

Entelegynae

Archaeoidea

Micropholcommatidae

Micropholcommatinae

Micropholcommatini

Austropholcomma

Austropholcomma walpole (at Wikispecies)^[11]

Araneoidea

Anapidae

Comaroma

Comaroma hatsushibai (at Wikispecies)^[12]

Dictynoidea

Cybaeidae

Cybaeus

Cybaeus yoshiakii (at Wikispecies)^[13]

Dictynidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six.^[14]

References

^ A Spider’s World: Senses and Behavior
^ Filmer (1991), p. 106.
^ Eaton & Kaufman (2007), p. 22.
^ Shapiro, Leo. "Telemidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ Shapiro, Leo (16 May 2015). "Pholcidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015. Most pholcids have eight eyes, although some have only six.
^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [46, f. 1A-C, 2A-H]
^ * Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1D-F, 3A-G]
^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [47, f. 1G-I, 4A-F]
^ Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2007. A new six-eyed pholcid spider (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Karst Tiankeng of Leye County, Guangxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32: 505-507. [505, f. 1-6]
^ * Tong, Y. F. & S. Q. Li. 2008. Four new species of six-eyed pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56: 45-53. PDF [52, f. 1J-L, 5A-G]
^ Rix & Harvey (2010), p. 33.
^ Ono, H. 2005: Two new six-eyed spiders of the genera Orchestina and Comaroma (Araneae, Oonopidae and Anapidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (A), 31: 37-43.
^ Yaginuma, T. 1968. A new six-eyed spider of the genus Cybaeus. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 21: 31-33. [31, f. 1-8]
^ Shapiro, Leo. "Dictynidae". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 16 May 2015. some species lack the anterior median eyes altogether

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Filmer, Martin R. (1991). Southern African Spiders: An Identification Guide. Random House. ISBN 978-1868251889.
Rix, Mihael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (2010). The Spider Family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): A Relimitation and Revision at the Generic Level. Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-9546425317.