dionychan

English

Noun

dionychan (plural dionychans)

1. (zoology) Any spider of the clade Dionycha.
   • 2003, Martín J. Ramírez, The Spider Subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): A Phylogenetic Revision at the Generic Level:

     This is so even though the closest relatives of Anyphaenidae are not yet determined, as is true for most dionychan families (Coddington and Levi, 1991), because anyphaenids are quite uniform in some characters not commonly found on other spiders (the details of the claw tufts and the tracheal system).