Biology:Wesmaldra

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Wesmaldra
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Wesmaldra
Platnick & Baehr, 2006[1]
Type species
W. bidgemia
Platnick & Baehr, 2006
Species

14, see text

Wesmaldra is a genus of Australia ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006.[2] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.[3]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains fourteen species, found only in the Northern Territory and Western Australia:[1]

  • Wesmaldra baynesi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra bidgemia Platnick & Baehr, 2006 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra bromilowi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra hirsti Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra kakadu Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Wesmaldra learmonth Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra napier Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra nixaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra rolfei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra splendida (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra talgomine Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra urawa Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra waldockae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Wesmaldra wiluna Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Wesmaldra Platnick & Baehr, 2006. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2465. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 298: 1–287. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG2.0.CO;2]. 
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5409746 entry