Artifex is a small genus of orb-weaver spiders native to tropical regions of mainland Australia and to New Caledonia. The genus was erected by R. J. Kallal and Gustavo Hormiga in 2018 to contain two species moved from different genera that have several synapomorphies, including an abdomen that extends past the spinnerets, widely separated spermathecae, and dorsal markings similar to those of Zygiellinae.[2] The name is a combination of the Latin "ars", meaning "art", and "-fex", meaning "maker" in reference to the shelters they build out of leaves.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Artifex Kallal & Hormiga, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Epeira melanopyga (L. Koch, 1871)
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| Species | |
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As of April 2022[update] it contains only two species: A. joannae and A. melanopyga.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Artifex Kallal & Hormiga, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ a b Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184 (4): 1055–1141. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014.
Further reading
edit- Kuntner, M.; Coddington, J. A.; Schneider, J. M. (2009). "Intersexual arms race? Genital coevolution in nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae)". Evolution. 63: 1451–1463. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.x.
- Kuntner, M.; Coddington, J. A.; Hormiga, G. (2008). "Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies". Cladistics. 24 (2): 147–217. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x.
- Berland, L. (1924), "Araignées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty", in Sarasin, F.; Roux, J. (eds.), Nova Caledonia, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6790
- Rainbow, W. J. (1916). "Arachnida from northern Queensland". Records of the Australian Museum. 11: 33–64, 79–119, pl.
- Bradley, H. B. (1876). "The araneids of the Chevert Expedition. Part I". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1: 137–150.
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