The Nicodamidae are a spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 family with 29 species in nine genera.

They are small to medium sized spiders found in small sheet webs close to the ground in eucalypt forests. In most cases the cephalothorax and legs are uniformly red and the abdomen black.

Distribution

The species of this family are only present in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 and the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n region.

Species

Ambicodamus Harvey, 1995

• Ambicodamus audax Harvey, 1995 (Eastern Australia)
• Ambicodamus crinitus (L. Koch, 1872) (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus dale Harvey, 1995 (Queensland)
• Ambicodamus darlingtoni Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)
• Ambicodamus emu Harvey, 1995 (Queensland)
• Ambicodamus kochi Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia)
• Ambicodamus leei Harvey, 1995 (South Australia)
• Ambicodamus marae Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia)
• Ambicodamus sororius Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus southwelli Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Ambicodamus urbanus Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)

Dimidamus Harvey, 1995

• Dimidamus arau Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus dimidiatus (Simon, 1897) (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Dimidamus enaro Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus leopoldi (Roewer
  Carl Friedrich Roewer
  Carl Friedrich Roewer was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae....
  
  , 1938) (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus sero Harvey, 1995 (New Guinea)
• Dimidamus simoni Harvey, 1995 (Victoria)

Durodamus Harvey, 1995

• Durodamus yeni Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, Victoria, South Australia)

Forstertyna Harvey, 1995

• Forstertyna marplesi (Forster
  Raymond Robert Forster
  Raymond Robert Forster was a spider expert.He wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17. He studied at Victoria University...
  
  , 1970) (New Zealand)

Litodamus Harvey, 1995

• Litodamus collinus Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)
• Litodamus hickmani Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)
• Litodamus olga Harvey, 1995 (Tasmania)

Megadictyna Dahl

Friedrich Dahl

Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist....

, 1906

• Megadictyna thilenii Dahl, 1906 (New Zealand)

Nicodamus Simon

Eugène Simon

Eugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....

, 1887

• Nicodamus mainae Harvey, 1995 (Western Australia, South Australia)
• Nicodamus peregrinus (Walckenaer
  Charles Athanase Walckenaer
  Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.-Biography:Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École...
  
  , 1842) (Eastern Australia)

Novodamus Harvey, 1995

• Novodamus nodatus (Karsch
  Friedrich Karsch
  Ferdinand Karsch or Karsch-Haack was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist....
  
  , 1878) (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
• Novodamus supernus Harvey, 1995 (New South Wales)

Oncodamus Harvey, 1995

• Oncodamus bidens (Karsch, 1878) (New South Wales)
• Oncodamus decipiens Harvey, 1995 (Queensland, New South Wales)

External links

• Picture of a Durodamus species