Biology:Quemedice

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Short description: Genus of spiders


Quemedice
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Quemedice
Mello-Leitão, 1942[1]
Type species
Q. enigmaticus
Mello-Leitão, 1942
Species
  • Q. enigmaticus Mello-Leitão, 1942Brazil , Argentina
  • Rheims, Labarque & Ramírez, 2008 – Colombia, Brazil Q. piracuruca

Quemedice is a genus of South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942.[2] (As of September 2019) it contains two species, found in Colombia, Argentina , and Brazil : Q. enigmaticus and Q. piracuruca.[1] Originally placed with the Philodromidae,[2] it was moved to the Sparassidae in 2008.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Quemedice Mello-Leitão, 1942. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3148. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1942). "Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero". Revista del Museo de La Plata 2: 381–426. 
  3. Rheims, C. A.; Labarque, F. M.; Ramírez, M. J. (2008). "The South American genus Quemedice Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Sparassidae): familial placement and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa 1813: 61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1809.1.4. 

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