Poecilopachys
Poecilopachys | |
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Two spined spider (Poecilopachys australasia) from New Zealand | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
Genus: | Poecilopachys Simon, 1895[1] |
Type species | |
P. australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
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Species | |
5, see text |
Poecilopachys is a genus of Australasian orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]
Species[]
As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]
- Poecilopachys australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Samoa
- (Rainbow, 1899) – Vanuatu
- Chrysanthus, 1971 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
- (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland)
- (L. Koch, 1871) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland), Samoa
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Poecilopachys Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
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- Araneidae
- Spiders of Asia
- Spiders of Oceania
- Araneomorphae genera
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