Liocranoides

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Liocranoides | authority = Keyserling, 1881<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''L. unicolor'' | type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1881 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 5, see text }}

'''''Liocranoides''''' is a genus of American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.<ref name=Keys1881 /> They live in habitats with cold surfaces, such as caves.<ref name=bugguide /> It was transferred from the sac spiders to the Tengellidae in 1967,<ref name=Leht1967 /> which was later merged with Zoropsidae.<ref name="fix1" />

==Species== {{as of|2019|09}} it contains five species, found Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia:<ref name=bugguide /><ref name=wsc /> *''Liocranoides archeri'' Platnick, 1999 – USA *''Liocranoides coylei'' Platnick, 1999 – USA *''Liocranoides gertschi'' Platnick, 1999 – USA *''Liocranoides tennesseensis'' Platnick, 1999 – USA *''Liocranoides unicolor'' Keyserling, 1881 (type) – USA

==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite journal| title=Gen. Liocranoides Keyserling, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3234| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> <ref name="bugguide">{{cite web| title=Genus Liocranoides| publisher=BugGuide| access-date=2019-10-15| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/255506}}</ref> <ref name="fix1">{{cite journal |last1=Polotow |first1=Daniele |last2=Carmichael |first2=Anthea |last3=Griswold |first3=Charles E. |year=2015 |title=Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae) |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=124–163 |doi=10.1071/IS14041 |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/pdf/IS14041|doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name="Keys1881">{{cite journal| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1881| title=Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III| journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien| pages=269–314| volume=31| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.20318| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/20318| author-link=Eugen_von_Keyserling}}</ref> <ref name="Leht1967">{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| page=244| author-link=Pekka_T._Lehtinen}}</ref> </references>

Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of the United States Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling Category:Zoropsidae