Leichhardteus is a genus of Australian corinnid sac spiders first described by B. C. Baehr & Robert Raven in 2013.[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: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Leichhardteus Raven & Baehr, 2013[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. conopalpis Baehr & Raven, 2013
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- Leichhardteus albofasciatus Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Leichhardteus badius Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
- Leichhardteus bimaculatus Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
- Leichhardteus conopalpis Baehr & Raven, 2013 (type) – Eastern Australia
- Leichhardteus evschlingeri Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Leichhardteus garretti Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
- Leichhardteus kroombit Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Leichhardteus reinhardi Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
- Leichhardteus strzelecki Raven, 2015 – Australia (Victoria)
- Leichhardteus terriirwinae Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
- Leichhardteus yagan Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Leichhardteus Raven & Baehr, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ Baehr, B. C.; Raven, R. J. (2013). "The new Australian ground-hunting spider genus Leichardteus (Araneae: Corinnidae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 58: 339–358. doi:10.17082/j.220401478.58.2013.2013-12.