Biology:Anisacate

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Anisacate
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Anisacate
Mello-Leitão, 1941[1]
Type species
A. fragile
Mello-Leitão, 1941
Species

4, see text

Anisacate is a genus of South American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1941.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains four species:[1]

  • Anisacate fragile Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
  • Anisacate fuegianum (Simon, 1884) – Chile, Argentina
    • Anisacate f. bransfieldi (Usher, 1983) – Falkland Is.
  • Anisacate tigrinum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Anisacate Mello-Leitão, 1941". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/76. 
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941). "Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén.". Revista del Museo de La Plata. New Series 2 (12): 99–198. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q965295 entry