Biology:Entychides

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Entychides
Entychides aurantiacus Simon, 1888.jpg
Entychides aurantiacus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euctenizidae
Genus: Entychides
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
E. aurantiacus
Simon, 1888
Species

4, see text

Entychides is a genus of mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985,[3] then to the Euctenizidae in 2012.[4]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains four species in Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and the Lesser Antilles:[1][2][5]

  • Entychides arizonicus Gertsch & Wallace, 1936 – USA
  • Entychides aurantiacus Simon, 1888 (type) – Mexico
  • Entychides dugesi Simon, 1888 – Mexico
  • Entychides guadalupensis Simon, 1888 – Guadeloupe

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Entychides Simon, 1888. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/858. Retrieved 2019-06-04. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 152. 
  4. Bond, J. E. (2012). "A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology". PLOS ONE 7 (6): 10. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038753. PMID 22723885. Bibcode2012PLoSO...738753B. 
  5. Bond, Jason E.; Opell, Brent D. (2002). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136 (3): 487–534. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x. 

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