Madagascarchaea

Madagascarchaea is a genus of assassin spiders first described by H. M. Wood & N. Scharff in 2018.[2]

Madagascarchaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Archaeidae
Genus:	Madagascarchaea Wood & Scharff, 2018[1]
Type species
M. gracilicollis (Millot, 1948)
Species
18, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eighteen species:[1]

• Madagascarchaea ambre (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea anabohazo (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea borimontsina (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea fohy Wood & Scharff, 2018 — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea gracilicollis (Millot, 1948) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea griswoldi (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea halambohitra (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea jeanneli (Millot, 1948) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea lavatenda (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea legendrei (Platnick, 1991) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea lotzi Wood & Scharff, 2018 — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea moramora Wood & Scharff, 2018 — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea namoroka (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea rabesahala Wood & Scharff, 2018 — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea spiceri (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea tsingyensis (Lotz, 2003) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea vadoni (Millot, 1948) — Madagascar
• Madagascarchaea voronakely (Wood, 2008) — Madagascar

References

1. "Gen. Madagascarchaea Wood & Scharff, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
2. Wood, H. M.; Scharff, N. (2018). "A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae)". ZooKeys. 727: 1–96. doi:10.3897/zookeys.727.20222. PMC 5799789.

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