Daviesa is a genus of Australian tangled nest spiders first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[2] This genus is named in honour of New Zealand arachnologist Valerie Todd Davies.[3] As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species.[1]
| Daviesa | |
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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: | Amaurobiidae |
| Genus: | Daviesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. lubinae (Davies, 1993)
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References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Daviesa Koçak & Kemal, 2008". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ Koçak, A. Ö.; Kemal, M. (2008). "New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida". Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara, Miscellaneous Papers. 139–140: 1–4.
- ^ Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.
External links
edit"Daviesa" at the Encyclopedia of Life