Gephyrina

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Gephyrina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Gephyrina
Simon, 1895 [1]
Type species
G. alba
Simon, 1895
Species

5, see text

Gephyrina is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. [2]

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains five species, found in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and on the Windward Islands: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Gephyrina Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Simon, E. (1895). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 39: 432–443.