Walking leg tarsi with pulvilli, chelicera with four denticles in the inner or median row..2
Walking leg tarsi without pulvilli, chelicerae with three denticles in the inner row...........9
Pedipalp tibia and femur with only two primary dorsal spines and a distal spinelet;
femur with only one dorsal spine and a small tubercle; anterior region of carapace elongate; eyes completely missing;
small..............................................................Paracharon caecus
Pedipalp tibia and tarsus with more than two primary dorsal spines, carapace not elongate anteriorly...............................................................................................................................3
Small animals, pedipalp tibia with three large spines dorsally, the distal one or the second one the largest,
followed proximally by spines of decreasing length and followed by one to two spinelets....................................................................................................Charinidae
Larger animals, pedipalp tibia dorsally with two or three large spines of almost equal size......................................................................................................................Charontidae
Prosomal sternites small, rounded tubercules covering only a small part of the intercoxal ventral side;
chelicerae: the lower cusp of the uppermost of distal, bicuspidal tooth of the internal or medial teeth row is the larger one;
female genitalia: soft cushions, each with a dark, sclerotized claw-like sclérite and a
seminal receptacle under the base of the sclérite....................................................................................................................Phrynidae
Prosomal sternites consisting of broad plates covering a large part of the intercoxal ventral side;
female genitalia without claw-like sclérite.................................Phrynichidae
