Arachosia (spider) explained

Arachosia is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-one species, found in the Americas, including the Greater Antilles:^[2]

• Arachosia albiventris Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia anyphaenoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – Brazil
• Arachosia arachosia Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Venezuela, Brazil
• Arachosia avalosi Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia bergi (Simon, 1880) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Arachosia bifasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia carancho Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Argentina
• Arachosia cubana (Banks, 1909) – USA, Cuba
• Arachosia freiburgensis Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia honesta Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia kapiipeoi Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
• Arachosia magna Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia minensis (Mello-Leitão, 1926) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia monserrate Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Colombia
• Arachosia oblonga (Keyserling, 1878) – Mexico
• Arachosia pinhalito Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Argentina
• Arachosia praesignis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil, Argentina
• Arachosia proseni (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
• Arachosia puta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892 – Panama, Brazil
• Arachosia striata (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
• Arachosia tungurahua Rubio & Ramírez, 2015 – Ecuador

See also

• List of Anyphaenidae species

Further reading

• Book: Adams . Richard J.. Manolis . Timothy D.. 2014. Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. 978-0520276611.
• Book: Bradley . Richard A.. 2012. Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. 978-0520274884.
• Book: Foelix . Rainer F.. 2010. Biology of Spiders. Oxford University Press. 3rd. 978-0199734825.
• Book: Jackman . John A.. 2002. A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. 978-0877192640.
• Book: Marshall . Sam. Edwards . G.B.. 2002. Florida's Fabulous Spiders. World Publications.
• Book: Ubick . D.. Paquin . P.. Cushing . P.E.. Roth . V.. 2005. Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. 978-0977143900.
• Wheeler . W.C.. Coddington . J.A.. Crowley . L.M.. Dimitrov . D.. Goloboff . P.A.. 4. 2016. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 576–616. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. free.

Notes and References

1. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1882. On new genera and species of Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 423–442. 50. 3. Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x. 2027/coo.31924018443543. free.
2. Gen. Arachosia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-06. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.