Synotaxus

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Synotaxus
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Synotaxidae
Genus: Synotaxus
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species

Simon, 1895
Species

11, see text

Synotaxus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Synotaxidae in 2017.[3]

Species[]

As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, and on Trinidad:[1]

  • Santos & Rheims, 2005Brazil
  • Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Exline, 1950 – Costa Rica to Ecuador
  • Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Souza, Brescovit & Araujo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Exline & Levi, 1965Colombia
  • (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
  • (Caporiacco, 1947)Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
  • Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Simon, 1895 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
  • Agnarsson, 2003 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay

See also[]

  • List of Synotaxidae species

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Synotaxus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
  3. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 96.


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