Biology:Aracus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Aracus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Aracus
Thorell, 1887[1]
Species:
A. captator
Binomial name
Aracus captator
Thorell, 1887

Aracus is a monotypic genus of Southeast Asian ground spiders containing the single species, Aracus captator. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887,[2] and has only been found in Myanmar.[1] It might be a senior synonym of Haplodrassus.[3][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Aracus Thorell, 1887". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/901. Retrieved 2019-06-04. 
  2. Thorell, T. (1887). "Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani.". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5–417. 
  3. Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. p. 58. 
  4. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Brill Leiden. ed. Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). 

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