Strotarchus

Strotarchus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.[4] Originally added to the Clubionidae,[4] it was moved to the Miturgidae in 1967,[5] and to the Cheiracanthiidae in 2014.[6] It is considered a senior synonym of Marcellina[3] and Coreidon.[2]

Strotarchus Temporal range: Neogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
S. piscatorius from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cheiracanthiidae
Genus:	Strotarchus Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
S. nebulosus Simon, 1888
Species
20, see text
Synonyms[1]
Coreidon Mello-Leitão, 1917[2] Marcellina Bryant, 1931[3]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains twenty species, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, and Pakistan:[1]

• Strotarchus alboater Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
• Strotarchus beepbeep Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – USA
• Strotarchus bolero Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus gandu Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Brazil
• Strotarchus jacala Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus mazamitla Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus michoacan Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus minor Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
• Strotarchus monasticus Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus nebulosus Simon, 1888 (type) – Mexico
• Strotarchus piscatorius (Hentz, 1847) – USA, Mexico
• Strotarchus planeticus Edwards, 1958 – USA, Mexico
• Strotarchus praedator (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
• Strotarchus silvae Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Peru
• Strotarchus tamaulipas Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus tlaloc Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Mexico
• Strotarchus tropicus (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
• Strotarchus urarina Bonaldo, Saturnino, Ramírez & Brescovit, 2012 – Peru
• Strotarchus violaceus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico
• Strotarchus vittatus Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Strotarchus Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
2. Ramírez, M. J.; Grismado, C.; Blick, T. (2004). "Notes on the spider family Agelenidae in southern South America (Arachnida: Araneae)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 9: 181.
3. Edwards, R. J. (1958). "The spider subfamily Clubioninae of the United States, Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Clubionidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 118: 373.
4. Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
5. 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: 321.
6. Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 342. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.