Biology:Eriauchenus

From HandWiki
Short description: Genus of spiders

Eriauchenus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Archaeidae
Genus: Eriauchenus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881[1]
Type species
E. workmani
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881
Species

20, see text

Eriauchenus is a genus of East African assassin spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1881.[2] The genus name has been incorrectly spelt "Eriauchenius".[1]

Species

(As of November 2021), it contained twenty species, all found on Madagascar :[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). Gen. Eriauchenus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/429. Retrieved 2021-11-21. 
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1881). "On some new genera and species of Araneidea.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 49 (3): 765–775. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01333.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1933901 entry