Quemedice Explained

Quemedice is a genus of South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942.[1] it contains two species, found in Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil: Q. enigmaticus and Q. piracuruca.[2] Originally placed with the Philodromidae, it was moved to the Sparassidae in 2008.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1942. Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero. Revista del Museo de La Plata. 381–426. 2. Cândido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leitão.
  2. Gen. Quemedice Mello-Leitão, 1942. 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.
  3. Rheims. C. A.. Labarque. F. M.. Ramírez. M. J.. 2008. The South American genus Quemedice Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Sparassidae): familial placement and taxonomic revision. Zootaxa. 1813. 61. 10.11646/zootaxa.1809.1.4.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Quemedice".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.