Anarchaea

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Anarchaea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Malkaridae
Genus: Anarchaea
Rix, 2006 [1]
Type species
A. corticola
(Hickman, 1969)
Species

4, see text

Anarchaea is a genus of Australian shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006. [2]

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains four species, found only in Queensland, New South Wales, and Tasmania: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Anarchaea Rix, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20: 203–254.