Biology:Segregara

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Segregara
Spurred trapdoor spider (Segregara sp.).jpg
Male Segregara sp.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Segregara
Tucker, 1917[1]
Type species
S. transvaalensis
(Hewitt, 1913)
Species
  • (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
  • S. paucispinulosa S. abrahami
  • (Hewitt, 1915) – South Africa S. transvaalensis

Segregara is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1917.[2] (As of May 2019) it contains only three species, all found in South Africa : S. abrahami, S. paucispinulosa, and S. transvaalensis.[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Segregara Tucker, 1917. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1098. Retrieved 2019-06-12. 
  2. Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae.". Annals of the South African Museum 17: 79–138. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 138. 

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