Biology:Hexura

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Hexura
Hexura picea.jpg
H. picea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Antrodiaetidae
Genus: Hexura
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
H. picea
Simon, 1884
Species

Hexura is a genus of United States folding trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2] (As of September 2019) it contains two species, found in the United States : H. picea and H. rothi.[1] Originally placed with Mecicobothriidae,[2] it was moved to Antrodiaetidae in 2019.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Hexura Simon, 1884. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1888. Retrieved 2019-10-11. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Simon, E. (1884). "Note sur le groupe des Mecicobothria". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 313–317. 
  3. Hedin, M. (2019). "Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci". PeerJ 7 (e6864): 15. doi:10.7717/peerj.6864. PMID 31110925. 

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