Wydundra

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Wydundra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
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]

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Species

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

See also

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)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 1–287. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
  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 .