Biology:Mazax

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Mazax is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.[1]

Species

As of July 2025 it contains ten species from the Americas and the Caribbean:[2]

  • Mazax ajax Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
  • Mazax chickeringi Reiskind, 1969 – Jamaica
  • Mazax kaspari Cokendolpher, 1978 – USA
  • Mazax leonidas -Colombia [3]
  • Mazax mokana - Colombia and Venezuela [3]
  • Mazax pax Reiskind, 1969 (type) – USA to Panama
  • Mazax ramirezi Rubio & Danişman, 2014 – Argentina
  • Mazax spinosa (Simon, 1898) – Central America, Lesser Antilles
  • Mazax tembe - Brazil [3]
  • Mazax xerxes Reiskind, 1969 – Costa Rica

References

  1. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 
  2. Gen. Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/553. Retrieved 2019-05-19. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Silva-Junior, Cláudio J.; Martínez, Leonel; Villarreal, Eduardo; Bonaldo, Alexandre B. (2024-11-13). "Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America". European Journal of Taxonomy (Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle) (968): 219–255. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731. ISSN 2118-9773. Bibcode2024EJTax.968..219S. 

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