Baiami

Baiami is a genus of Australian intertidal spiders that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] Originally placed with the Stiphidiidae, it was transferred to the Desidae after the results of a 2019 genetic analysis.[3]

Baiami
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Baiami
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
B. volucripes
(Simon, 1908)
Species

9, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains nine species, found in South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia:[1]

  • Baiami brockmani Gray, 1981Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami glenelgi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Victoria)
  • Baiami loftyensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (South Australia)
  • Baiami montana Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami stirlingi Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami storeniformis (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami tegenarioides (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami torbayensis Gray, 1981 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Baiami volucripes (Simon, 1908) (type) – Australia (Western Australia)

B. longipes and B. magnus were transferred to Canala, and B. mullamullangensis was transferred to Tartarus.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Baiami Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
  3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 606.
  4. Gray, M. R. (1992). "The troglobitic spider genus Tartarus Gray with a cladistic analysis of Tartarus and Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae: Stiphidiidae)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 113: 166.


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