Ixchela Explained

Ixchela is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-two species, found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico:^[2]

• Ixchela abernathyi (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
• Ixchela azteca Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Aztec people.^[3]
• Ixchela franckei Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
• Ixchela furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) (type) – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
• Ixchela grix Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
• Ixchela huasteca Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after La Huasteca, where this species is found.
• Ixchela huberi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
• Ixchela jalisco Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the state of Jalisco, where this species is found.^[3]
• Ixchela juarezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after Benito Juárez.^[4]
• Ixchela mendozai Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico
• Ixchela mixe Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Mixe people.^[4]
• Ixchela panchovillai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Pancho Villa.^[5]
• Ixchela pecki (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
• Ixchela placida (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
• Ixchela purepecha Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Purépecha people.^[3]
• Ixchela santibanezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
• Ixchela simoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
• Ixchela taxco Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
• Ixchela tlayuda Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the tlayuda dish, typical of Oaxaca, where this species is found.
• Ixchela tzotzil Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Tzotzil people.^[4]
• Ixchela viquezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Honduras
• Ixchela zapatai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Emiliano Zapata.^[5]

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

Notes and References

1. Huber. B. A.. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–348. 254. 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. 2246/1601. 83685875. free.
2. Gen. Ixchela Huber, 2000. World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. 2021-11-06. 2021. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
3. Valdez-Mondragón. A.. Francke . O. F. . 2015 . Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 175 . 1 . 20–58 . 10.1111/zoj.12265 . free.
4. Valdez-Mondragón. A.. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with description of ten new species from Mexico and Central America. Zootaxa. 3608 . 5. 285–327. 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.5.1. 24614473 . ResearchGate . 6 November 2021.
5. Valdez-Mondragón. A.. 2020. COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico. Zootaxa. 4747 . 1. 54–76. 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2. 32230118. 214748642.