Methesis

Methesis is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1896.[2] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to Corinnidae in 1969.[3] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1]

Methesis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Methesis
Simon, 1896[1]
Type species
M. semirufa
Simon, 1896
Species
  • M. brevitarsa Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
  • M. semirufa Simon, 1896 – Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia

References
  1. "Gen. Methesis Simon, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  2. Simon, E. (1896). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Clubionidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 40: 400–422.
  3. Reiskind, J. (1969). "The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 138: 166.


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