Agraecina Simon, 1932

Bosselaers, Jan, 2009, Studies in Liocranidae (Araneae): redescriptions and transfers in Apostenus Westring and Brachyanillus Simon, as well as description of a new genus, Zootaxa 2141, pp. 37-55 : 43

Agraecina Simon, 1932

Agraecina Simon, 1932: 939 .

Type species: Agraecina lineata ( Simon, 1878)

Diagnosis. Agraecina differs from the closely related genus Agroeca by its smaller size, by the presence of two pairs of ventral spines on metatarsi I and II and by the simpler genitalic structure: a male palp with a simple slender embolus and a hook-shaped, elongated median apophysis, and a weakly sclerotised epigyne with an ill-defined median septum, as well as small spermathecae 1 and 2, connected to each end of a wide, longitudinally oriented insemination duct. Agraecina differs from Liocranoeca Wunderlich, 1999 by the presence of an elongated median apophysis in the male palp and by the presence of a median septum and the absence of a median anterior hood in the epigyne.