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Mecysmaucheniidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Spider

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Rank
  
Family

Mecysmaucheniidae httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Similar
  
Stenochilidae, Austrochilidae, Senoculidae, Cycloctenidae, Synotaxidae

The Mecysmaucheniidae are family of araneomorph spiders with 25 described species in seven genera.

Contents

Distribution

Most genera only occur in South America (Chile and Argentina), with two genera endemic to New Zealand.

Species

The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.

  • Mecysmaucheniinae Simon, 1895
  • Aotearoa Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Aotearoa magna (Forster, 1949) (New Zealand)
  • Mecysmauchenioides Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Mecysmauchenioides nordenskjoldi (Tullgren, 1901) (Chile, Argentina)
  • Mecysmauchenioides quetrihue Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 (Argentina)
  • Mecysmauchenius Simon, 1884
  • Mecysmauchenius canan Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius chacamo Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius chapo Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius chepu Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius chincay Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius eden Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius fernandez Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Juan Fernandez Is.)
  • Mecysmauchenius gertschi Zapfe, 1960 (Chile, Argentina)
  • Mecysmauchenius newtoni Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius osorno Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
  • Mecysmauchenius platnicki Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius puyehue Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius segmentatus Simon, 1884 (Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.)
  • Mecysmauchenius termas Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius thayerae Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
  • Mecysmauchenius victoria Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mecysmauchenius villarrica Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Mesarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Mesarchaea bellavista Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Semysmauchenius Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Semysmauchenius antillanca Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
  • Zearchaeinae Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Chilarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984
  • Chilarchaea quellon Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
  • Zearchaea Wilton, 1946
  • Zearchaea clypeata Wilton, 1946 (New Zealand)
  • Zearchaea fiordensis Forster, 1955 (New Zealand)

    • References

    Mecysmaucheniidae Wikipedia
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