Biology:Artifex (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Artifex
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Artifex
Kallal & Hormiga, 2018[1]
Type species
A. melanopyga (L. Koch, 1871)
Species
  • A. joannae (Berland, 1924) — New Caledonia
  • (L. Koch, 1871) — Australia (Queensland) A. melanopyga

Artifex is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by R. J. Kallal & Gustavo Hormiga in 2018.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only two species.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Artifex Kallal & Hormiga, 2018". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5703. Retrieved 2019-04-08. 
  2. Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution.". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (4): 1055–1141. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014. 

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