Arachosia (spider)

Arachosia
A. cubana, immature
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Anyphaenidae
Genus:	Arachosia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 [1]
Type species
A. anyphaenoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882
Species
21, see text
Synonyms [1]
Abuzaida Keyserling, 1891 [2] Gayennina Gertsch, 1935 [2] SamuzaKeyserling, 1891 [2]

Arachosia is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ^[3]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in the Americas, including the Greater Antilles: ^[1]

• Arachosia albiventris Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia anyphaenoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – Brazil
• Arachosia arachosia Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Venezuela, Brazil
• Arachosia avalosi Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia bergi (Simon, 1880) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Arachosia bifasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia carancho Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Argentina
• Arachosia cubana (Banks, 1909) – USA, Cuba
• Arachosia freiburgensis Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia honesta Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia kapiipeoi Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
• Arachosia magna Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia minensis (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia monserrate Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Colombia
• Arachosia oblonga (Keyserling, 1878) – Mexico
• Arachosia pinhalito Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Argentina
• Arachosia praesignis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia proseni (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
• Arachosia puta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892 – Panama, Brazil
• Arachosia striata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Arachosia tungurahua Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Ecuador

References

1. "Gen. Arachosia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-06.
2. Ramírez, M. J. (2003). "The spider subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): a phylogenetic revision at the generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 277: 130. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)277<0001:TSSAAA>2.0.CO;2. S2CID   84027902.
3. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882). "On new genera and species of Araneidea". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 50 (3): 423–442. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x. hdl: 2027/coo.31924018443543 .

Further reading

• Adams, Richard J.; Manolis, Timothy D. (2014). Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520276611.
• Bradley, Richard A. (2012). Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520274884.
• Foelix, Rainer F. (2010). Biology of Spiders (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0199734825.
• Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN   978-0877192640.
• Marshall, Sam; Edwards, G.B. (2002). Florida's Fabulous Spiders. World Publications.
• Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V., eds. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. ISBN   978-0977143900.
• Wheeler, W.C.; Coddington, J.A.; Crowley, L.M.; Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2016). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 576–616. doi: 10.1111/cla.12182 . PMID   34724759.