Ixchela is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000.[2]

Ixchela
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Ixchela
Huber, 2000[1]
Type species
I. furcula
Species

22, see text

Species

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As of November 2021 it contains twenty-two species, found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico:[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Ixchela Huber, 2000". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  2. ^ Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 1–348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1601. S2CID 83685875.
  3. ^ a b c Valdez-Mondragón, A.; Francke, O. F. (2015). "Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 20–58. doi:10.1111/zoj.12265.
  4. ^ a b c d Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with description of ten new species from Mexico and Central America". Zootaxa. 3608 (5): 285–327. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3608.5.1. PMID 24614473. Retrieved 6 November 2021 – via ResearchGate.
  5. ^ a b Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2020). "COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico". Zootaxa. 4747 (1): 54–76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2. PMID 32230118. S2CID 214748642.