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.
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Araneomorphae Haplogynae Scytodoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders Drymusidae Periegopidae ScytodesFilmer (1991), p. 106. SicariidaeEaton & Kaufman (2007), p. 22. Leptonetoidea—superfamily of six-eyed spiders Leptonetidae Ochyroceratidae Telemidae—predominantly six-eyed, but some species with none. Pholcoidea Diguetidae—family of six-eyed spiders Pholcidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six. Pholcinae Belisana Belisana aliformis (at Wikispecies) & . 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] Belisana huberi (at Wikispecies)* & . 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] Belisana lamellaris (at Wikispecies) & . 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] Belisana zhangi (at Wikispecies) & . 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] Khorata Khorata diaoluoshanensis (at Wikispecies) * & . 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] 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 Dysderidae Oonopidae Orsolobidae Segestriidae Trogloraptoridae Entelegynae Archaeoidea Micropholcommatidae Micropholcommatinae Micropholcommatini Austropholcomma Austropholcomma walpole (at Wikispecies)Rix & Harvey (2010), p. 33. Araneoidea Anapidae Comaroma Comaroma hatsushibai (at Wikispecies) 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. Dictynoidea Cybaeidae Cybaeus Cybaeus yoshiakii (at Wikispecies) 1968. A new six-eyed spider of the genus Cybaeus. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 21: 31-33. [31, f. 1-8] Dictynidae—predominantly eight-eyed, but some species with six.
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