Hickmanolobus

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Hickmanolobus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Hickmanolobus
Forster & Platnick, 1985 [1]
Type species
H. mollipes
(Hickman, 1932)
Species

5, see text

Hickmanolobus is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985. [2]

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Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Hickmanolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.