- Mecysmaucheniidae
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Mecysmaucheniidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Suborder: Araneomorphae Superfamily: Archaeoidea Family: Mecysmaucheniidae
Simon, 1895Genera see text
Diversity 7 genera, 25 species The Mecysmaucheniidae are a spider family 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
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- Mecysmauchenioides Forster & Platnick, 1984
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- Mecysmauchenioides nordenskjoldi (Tullgren, 1901) (Chile, Argentina)
- Mecysmauchenioides quetrihue Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 (Argentina)
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- Mecysmauchenius Simon, 1884
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- 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)
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- Mesarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984
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- Mesarchaea bellavista Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
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- Semysmauchenius Forster & Platnick, 1984
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- Semysmauchenius antillanca Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
- Zearchaeinae Forster & Platnick, 1984
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- Chilarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984
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- Chilarchaea quellon Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
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- Zearchaea Wilton, 1946
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- Zearchaea clypeata Wilton, 1946 (New Zealand)
- Zearchaea fiordensis Forster, 1955 (New Zealand)
See also
- List of Mecysmaucheniidae species
- Spider families
References
- Grismado, CJ & MJ Ramírez. 2005. Nuevas especies de la familia Mecysmaucheniidae (Araneae) de Chile y Argentina. Biota Neotropica 5: 1-4 PDF (Spanish, with pictures) (Mecysmauchenius platnicki)
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