Physoglenes Explained

Physoglenes is a genus of Chilean araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1904.^[1] It has been listed under several different families, including Leptonetidae, Pholcidae,^[2] Synotaxidae,^[3] and most recently, Physoglenidae.^[4]

Species

it contains four species, found in Chile:^[5]

• Physoglenes chepu Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes lagos Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes puyehue Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes vivesi Simon, 1904 (type) – Chile

See also

• List of Physoglenidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1904. Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 83–114. 48. Eugène_Simon.
2. Petrunkevitch. A.. 1928. Systema Aranearum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 29. 112. Alexander_Petrunkevitch.
3. Forster. R. R.. Platnick. N. I.. Coddington. J.. 1990. A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193. 10. Raymond_Robert_Forster. Norman_I._Platnick. Jonathan_A._Coddington.
4. Dimitrov. D.. etal. 2017. Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). Cladistics. 33. 3. 242. 10.1111/cla.12165. 34715728. free.
5. Gen. Physoglenes Simon, 1904. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-13. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.