Trachelas

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Trachelas
Bull-headed Sac Spider - Trachelas tranquillus, Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
T. tranquillus from Virginia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Trachelas
L. Koch, 1872 [1]
Type species
T. minor
Species

88, see text

Trachelas is a genus of araneomorph spiders which has variously been placed in families Trachelidae or Corinnidae. Current taxonomy places it in Trachelidae. [2]

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Though the name was first used in an identification key published by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866, [3] it did not include a description for either genders. In 1872, O. Pickard-Cambridge described the type species, ascribing it to the same name given several years earlier. [4] Koch revisited the genus and covered it more thoroughly shortly after the type species was described. [5]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eighty-eight species: [1] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Trachelas L. Koch, 1872". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. ↑ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 342. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl: 11336/18066 . S2CID   86146467.
  3. ↑ Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. p. 2.
  4. ↑ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
  5. ↑ Koch, L. (1872). "Apterologisches aus dem fränkischen Jura". Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg. 5: 146.
  6. ↑ Platnick, Norman I.; Shadab, Mohammad Umar (1974). "A revision of the tranquillus and speciosus groups of the spider genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in North and Central America. American Museum novitates; no. 2553". American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5449.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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