Bymainiella

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Bymainiella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Hexathelidae
Genus: Bymainiella
Raven, 1978 [1]
Type species
B. terraereginae
(Raven, 1976)
Species

4, see text

Bymainiella is a genus of Australian funnel-web spiders that was first described by R. J. Raven in 1978. [2] This genus is named in honour of the Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main. [3]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Bymainiella Raven, 1978". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1978). "Systematics of the spider subfamily Hexathelinae (Dipluridae: Mygalomorphae: Arachnida)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 65 (Suppl).
  3. Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN   2050-9928. Wikidata   Q113667188.