Biology:Decaphora

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Decaphora
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Decaphora
Franganillo, 1931[1]
Type species
D. cubana
(Banks, 1909)
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Tentabunda Fox, 1937[2]

Decaphora is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by P. Franganillo B. in 1931.[3]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains five species, found in Central America, Cuba, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States , and Colombia:[1]

  • Decaphora cubana (Banks, 1909) (type) – USA, Bahamas, Cuba
  • Decaphora kohunlich Rheims & Alayón, 2014 – Mexico, Guatemala
  • Decaphora pestai (Reimoser, 1939) – Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  • Decaphora planada Rheims, 2017 – Colombia
  • Decaphora variabilis (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Mexico

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Decaphora Franganillo, 1931. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3106. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Rheims, C. A.; Alayón, G. (2014). "The huntsman genus Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae)". Zootaxa 3815 (1): 81. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3815.1.5. 
  3. Franganillo B., P. (1931). "Excursiones arachnológicas, durante el mes de agosto de 1930". Estudios de "Belen" 1931 (25): 168–171. 

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