Entychides Explained

Entychides is a genus of mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.^[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[2] then to the Euctenizidae in 2012.^[3]

Species

it contains four species in Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and the Lesser Antilles:^{[4] [5]}

• Entychides arizonicus Gertsch & Wallace, 1936 – USA
• Entychides aurantiacus Simon, 1888 (type) – Mexico
• Entychides dugesi Simon, 1888 – Mexico
• Entychides guadalupensis Simon, 1888 – Guadeloupe

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1888. Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 203–216. 8. 6.
2. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 152.
3. Bond. J. E.. etal. 2012. A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology. PLOS ONE. 7. 6. 10. 10.1371/journal.pone.0038753. 22723885. 3378619. 2012PLoSO...738753B. free.
4. Gen. Entychides Simon, 1888. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
5. Bond. Jason E.. Opell. Brent D.. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2002. 136. 3. 487–534. 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x. free.