hypochilid

English

Noun

hypochilid (plural hypochilids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the Hypochilidae (the lampshade spiders).
   • 1953, The New Yorker, volume 29, number 3, page 33:

     Dr. Gertsch advised us that scorpions are remote relatives of spiders — no closer than a wasp is to a snout beetle — and that the rare ancient spider he nabbed was a hypochilid, dating back two hundred and fifty million years to the Carboniferous Age.

   • 1999, Raymond R. Forster, Spiders of New Zealand and Their World-wide Kin, page 69:

     Their four booklungs linked these hypochilids with primitive mygalomorphs.

   • 2013, Wolfgang Nentwig, Spider Ecophysiology‎^[1], page 305:

     The cribellar fibrils of the 12 hypochilid species are cylindrical with a diameter of about 25 nm, whereas fibrils of all other cribellate species, except members of the family Filistatidae, have regularly spaced, swollen nodes that have a diameter of about 35 nm.