Mazax

Mazax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Mazax ; O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898
Type species
	M. pax ; Reiskind, 1969
Species
	7, see text

Last updated July 30, 2025

Mazax is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.^[2]

Species

As of July 2025^[update] it contains ten species from the Americas and the Caribbean:^[1]

Mazax ajax Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
Mazax chickeringi Reiskind, 1969 – Jamaica
Mazax kaspari Cokendolpher, 1978 – USA
Mazax leonidas -Colombia ^[3]
Mazax mokana - Colombia and Venezuela ^[3]
Mazax pax Reiskind, 1969 (type) – USA to Panama
Mazax ramirezi Rubio & Danişman, 2014 – Argentina
Mazax spinosa (Simon, 1898) – Central America, Lesser Antilles
Mazax tembe - Brazil ^[3]
Mazax xerxes Reiskind, 1969 – Costa Rica

References

1 2 "Gen. Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-19.
↑ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
1 2 3 Silva-Junior, Cláudio J.; Martínez, Leonel; Villarreal, Eduardo; Bonaldo, Alexandre B. (2024-11-13). "Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America". European Journal of Taxonomy (968). Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle: 219–255. Bibcode:2024EJTax.968..219S. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731 . ISSN 2118-9773.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-19.

[Pick1898-2] Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology

[o262-3] 1 2 3 Silva-Junior, Cláudio J.; Martínez, Leonel; Villarreal, Eduardo; Bonaldo, Alexandre B. (2024-11-13). "Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America". European Journal of Taxonomy (968). Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle: 219–255. Bibcode:2024EJTax.968..219S. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731 . ISSN 2118-9773.

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