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Austrarchaea

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Austrarchaea
A. griswoldi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Archaeidae
Genus: Austrarchaea
Forster & Platnick, 1984[1]
Type species
A. nodosa
(Forster, 1956)
Species

30, see text

Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.[2] 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011,[3] 2012,[4] and 2024.[5]

Species

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As of May 2024 it contains thirty species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Austrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 1–106.
  3. ^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (15 August 2011). "Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia". ZooKeys. 123 (123): 1–100. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.123.1448. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3175121. PMID 21998529. Wikidata Q21192137.
  4. ^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (30 August 2012). "Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland". ZooKeys. 218 (218): 1–50. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.218.3662. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3433871. PMID 22977344. Wikidata Q21191855.
  5. ^ Rix, Michael G; Harvey, Mark S (15 May 2024). "A new species of pelican spider (Araneae: Archaeidae) from the Whitsunday hinterland of central-eastern Queensland". Australian Journal of Taxonomy. 64: 1–7. doi:10.54102/ajt.8sf6i.