Biology:Macrinus (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Macrinus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Macrinus
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
M. succineus
Simon, 1887
Species

6, see text

Macrinus is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[2]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains six species, found in South America, the United States , and on Tobago:[1]

  • Macrinus bambuco Rheims, 2010 – Colombia
  • Macrinus calypso Rheims, 2010 – Tobago
  • Macrinus jaegeri Rheims, 2007Brazil
  • Macrinus mohavensis (Fox, 1937) – USA
  • Macrinus pollexensis (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela, Brazil
  • Macrinus succineus Simon, 1887 (type) – Ecuador to Brazil

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Macrinus Simon, 1887. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3122. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Simon, E. (1887). "Espèces et genres nouveaux de la famille des Sparassidae". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 12: 466–474. 

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