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Hooded Tickspider

Arachnids

Ricinulei are a small, little-known order of arachnids, sometimes called hooded tickspiders, found in humid leaf litter and caves in tropical Africa and the Americas. They are unusual among arachnids for the hinged, hood-like flap covering their mouthparts, and for males transferring sperm to females using a modified third leg rather than dedicated genital structures used by most other arachnids; the order is thought to include fewer than a hundred described living species, making it one of the rarest and least studied arachnid lineages.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Carnivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 3
Scientific Name
Ricinulei 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Ricinulei, Taxa
Source Wikipedia: Ricinulei

In Biome

Tropical Rainforest, Biomes
Source Wikipedia: Ricinulei
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Africa

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Brazil

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ricinulei
  • lead paragraph (habitat realm), EntityId 312550
    They occur today in west-central Africa (Ricinoides, and see text) and the Americas (Cryptocellus and Pseudocellus) from Brazil to southern Texas, where they inhabit either leaf-litter or caves.
  • Lead
    Like most arachnids, they are predatory; eating small arthropods.
  • In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, habitat statement
    Ricinuleids inhabit the leaf litter of rainforest floors, as well as caves, where they search for prey with their elongate sensory second leg pair.
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2. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ19120, descriptionView the Source
3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Arachnida
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 27
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 27
"cites_listing":"II/III/NC","eu_listing":"B/C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Arthropoda","class":"Arachnida","order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Scorpions And Spiders","language":"EN"},{"name":"Araignées","language":"FR"},{"name":"Arañas","language":"ES"},{"name":"蛛形纲","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
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4. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Ricinulei
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyTaxon record
Quote, Taxon record
"canonicalName": "Ricinulei"
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