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]
| Austrarchaea | |
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| A. griswoldi | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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| Species | |
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30, see text | |
Species
editAs of May 2024[update] it contains thirty species:[1]
- Austrarchaea alani Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea aleenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea andersoni Rix, 2024 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea binfordae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea christopheri Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea clyneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea cunninghami Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea davidi Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea dianneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea harmsi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea helenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea hoskini Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea judyae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea karenae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea laidlawae Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea mascordi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea mcguiganae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea milledgei Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea monteithi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea nodosa (Forster, 1956) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea platnickorum Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea smithae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Austrarchaea tealei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea thompsoni Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea wallacei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea westi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
- Austrarchaea woodae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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