Biology:Poecilopachys

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Poecilopachys
Poecilopachys australasiae.jpg
Two spined spider (Poecilopachys australasia) from New Zealand
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Subfamily: Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus: Poecilopachys
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
P. australasia
(Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
Species

5, see text

Poecilopachys is a genus of Australasian orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains five species:[1]

  • Poecilopachys australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Samoa
  • Poecilopachys jenningsi (Rainbow, 1899) – Vanuatu
  • Poecilopachys minutissima Chrysanthus, 1971 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
  • Poecilopachys speciosa (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Poecilopachys verrucosa (L. Koch, 1871) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland), Samoa

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Poecilopachys Simon, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/386. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell00sim. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1165244 entry