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| Harpactea Temporal range:
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| Harpactea hombergi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Dysderidae |
| Genus: | Harpactea Bristowe, 1939[1] |
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| Dysdera latreillei Blackwall, 1832, syn. of Harpactea hombergi[1] | |
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Harpactea is a genus in the family Dysderidae (woodlouse hunting spiders). Harpactea is a replacement name published by W. S. Bristowe in 1939 for the unavailable name "Harpactes" published by R. Templeton in 1835, which had already been used for a genus of birds.[2] They are non-web building predators that forage on the ground and on tree trunks at night, mainly in xerothermic forests. During the day, they hide in silk retreats they build under rocks or bark.[3]
Harpactea sadistica was found to use traumatic insemination, the arthropod behavior of directly inserting its sperm into the body cavity of females. It is the first time it has ever been observed in spiders.[4]
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
NMBEwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Bris39p5was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Řezáč, M. (2008). "Description of Harpactea sadistica n. sp. (Araneae: Dysderidae)—a haplogyne spider with reduced female genitalia". Zootaxa. 1698: 65–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1698.1.5.
- ^ Řezáč, M. (2009). "The spider Harpactea sadistica: co-evolution of traumatic insemination and complex female genital morphology in spiders". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1668): 2697–2701. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0104. hdl:2445/161996. PMC 2839943. PMID 19403531.