Biology:Neuquenia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Neuquenia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Neuquenia
Mello-Leitão, 1940[1]
Type species
N. pallida
Mello-Leitão, 1940
Species
  • N. pallida Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Argentina
  • (Simon, 1905) – Argentina N. paupercula

Neuquenia is a genus of South American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only two species, both found in Argentina .[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Neuquenia Mello-Leitão, 1940". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/101. 
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940). "Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires y de las gobernaciones de La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut.". Revista del Museo de La Plata. New Series 2: 3–62. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3338648 entry