Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.[2] A further 25 were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011[3] and 2012.[4]
Species
As of April 2019 it contains twenty-seven species:[1]
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Austrarchaea alani Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea aleenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea binfordae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea christopheri Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea clyneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea cunninghami Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea dianneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea harmsi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea helenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea hoskini Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea judyae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea karenae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea mascordi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea mcguiganae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea milledgei Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea monteithi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea nodosa (Forster, 1956) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea platnickorum Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea smithae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea tealei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea thompsoni Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea wallacei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea westi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea woodae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
References
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^ a b "Gen. Austrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
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^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 1–106.
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^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (15 August 2011). "Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia". ZooKeys. 123 (123): 1–100. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.123.1448. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3175121. PMID 21998529. Wikidata Q21192137.
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^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (30 August 2012). "Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland". ZooKeys. 218 (218): 1–50. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.218.3662. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3433871. PMID 22977344. Wikidata Q21191855.
