Wydundra

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Wydundra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Subfamily: Prodidominae
Genus:Wydundra
Platnick & Baehr, 2006 [1]
Type species
W. osbourne
Platnick & Baehr, 2006
Species

46, see text

Wydundra is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006. [2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018. [3]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Norman I. Platnick American zoologist

Norman I. Platnick is an American biological systematist and arachnologist. He is a Professor Emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D. recipient at Harvard University, Platnick has described over 1,800 species of spiders from around the world, making him the second most prolific arachnologist in history, behind only Eugène Simon. Until 2014 he was also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog, a website formerly hosted by the AMNH which tracks the arachnology literature, and attempts to maintain a comprehensive list, sorted taxonomically, of every species of spider which has been formally described. In 2007 he received the International Society of Arachnology's Bonnet award, named for Pierre Bonnet, in recognition for his work on the catalog.

Barbara Baehr is a research scientist, entomologist, arachnologist, and spider taxonomist. She has described over 400 new spider species, mostly from Australia. She is originally from Pforzheim, West Germany.

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Species

As of June 2019 it contains forty-six species, found only in Australia and Malaysia: [1]

Australia Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

Malaysia Federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital and largest city while Putrajaya is the seat of federal government. With a population of over 30 million, Malaysia is the world's 44th most populous country. The southernmost point of continental Eurasia, Tanjung Piai, is in Malaysia. In the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries, with large numbers of endemic species.

Type species term used in zoological nomenclature (also non-officially in botanical nomenclature)

In zoological nomenclature, a type species is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups called a type genus.

Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold is a Dutch arachnologist. She graduated from the Leiden University in 1978. She specializes in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 Southeast Asian spiders, the largest collection of Southeast Asian spiders in existence, to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. In addition to numerous articles, she has written the book Forest Spiders of South East Asia (2001). She is married to arachnologist Paul Robert Deeleman, with whom she has co-authored multiple publications.

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Lamponella is a genus of Australian white tailed spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2000.

Longepi is a genus of Australian white tailed spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2000.

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Anzacia is a genus of South Pacific ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1919.

Eilica is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1891.

Hickmanolobus is a genus of spiders in the Orsolobidae family. It was first described in 1985 by Forster & Platnick. As of 2017, it contains 5 species, all from Australia.

Molycria is a genus of spiders in the Gnaphosidae family. It was first described in 1887 by Simon. As of 2017, it contains 36 species, all found in Australia.

Myandra is a genus of spiders in the Gnaphosidae family. It was first described in 1887 by Simon. As of 2017, it contains 4 species, all from Australia.

Nomindra is a genus of spiders in the Gnaphosidae family. It was first described in 2006 by Platnick & Baehr. As of 2017, it contains 16 species, all found in Australia.

Prodidomus is a genus of spiders in the Gnaphosidae family. It was first described in 1847 by Hentz. As of 2017, it contains 53 species.

Wesmaldra is a genus of spiders in the Gnaphosidae family. It was first described in 2006 by Platnick & Baehr. As of 2017, it contains 14 species, all from Australia.

Neato is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the Gallieniellidae family, and was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 2002.

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Wydundra Platnick & Baehr, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ↑ Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 1–287.
  3. ↑ Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.


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