Matachia

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Matachia
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Matachia spp. found in the Hen and Chicken Islands, New Zealand
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Matachia
Dalmas, 1917 [1]
Type species
M. ramulicola
Dalmas, 1917
Species

5, see text

Synonyms [1]
  • UrquhartiaBryant, 1933 [2]

Matachia is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1917. [3] Originally placed with the Psechridae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1970. [4]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species, all found in New Zealand: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Matachia Dalmas, 1917". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. ↑ Marples, B. J. (1962). "The Matachiinae, a group of cribellate spiders". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 44 (301): 704. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1962.tb01965.x.
  3. ↑ Dalmas, R. de (1917). "Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 86 (2–3): 317–430. doi:10.1080/21686351.1917.12279910.
  4. ↑ Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 25.
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