Leclercera

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Leclercera
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Psilodercidae
Genus: Leclercera
Deeleman-Reinhold [1]
Type species
Leclercera khaoyai
Species

11, see text

Leclercera is a genus of spiders in the family Psilodercidae found in southeast Asia, including Thailand, Nepal, and the Philippines. [1] It was first described in 1995 by Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold, who named it after a fellow collector of Asian spiders. [2] She originally placed under Ochyroceratidae , but it was later moved it to Psilodercidae . It is named for Philippe Leclerc, a collector of spiders in southeast Asia. [2]

Members of this genus are usually larger than those in Psiloderces and Merizocera , but can also be distinguished by teeth on the retromargin of the chelicerae (behind the fang), a round maxillae, and a longer labium. They can be distinguished from Althepus by the rounded posterior margin of the carapace and a shallow fovea that doesn't quite reach the posterior thoracic margin, among other factors. [2]

Species

As of February 2019, it contains eleven species from southeast Asia: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Leclercera Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  2. 1 2 3 Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1995). "The Ochyroceratidae of the Indo-Pacific region (Araneae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 2.