Biology:Flavarchaea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Flavarchaea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Malkaridae
Genus: Flavarchaea
Rix, 2006[1]
Type species
F. lulu
(Rix, 2005)
Species

8, see text

Flavarchaea is a genus of South Pacific shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains eight species, found only in Australia and on New Caledonia:[1]

  • Flavarchaea anzac Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Flavarchaea badja Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
  • Flavarchaea barmah Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
  • Flavarchaea hickmani (Rix, 2005) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Flavarchaea humboldti Rix & Harvey, 2010 – New Caledonia
  • Flavarchaea lofty Rix, 2006 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Flavarchaea lulu (Rix, 2005) (type) – Australia (Tasmania)
  • Flavarchaea stirlingensis Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Flavarchaea Rix, 2006. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2239. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics 20 (2): 203–254. doi:10.1071/IS05032. 

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