Parachemmis Explained

Parachemmis is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Arthur M. Chickering in 1937 as a genus of ground spiders.^[1] It was transferred to Liocranidae in 1969,^[2] and to Corinnidae in 1994.^[3]

Species

it contains four species in Central and South America:^[4]

• Parachemmis fuscus Chickering, 1937 (type) – Panama
• Parachemmis hassleri (Gertsch, 1942) – Guyana
• Parachemmis julioblancoi Martinez-G & Villarreal, 2017 – Colombia
• Parachemmis manauara Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil

Notes and References

1. Chickering. A. M.. 1937. The Clubionidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama.. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 1–47. 56. 1. 10.2307/3222720. 3222720.
2. Reiskind. J.. 1969. The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 138. 166.
3. Bonaldo. A. B.. Brescovit. A. D.. 1994. Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Stethorrhagus (Araneae, Corinnidae). Andrias. 13. 34.
4. Gen. Parachemmis Chickering, 1937. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-21. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.