Biology:Oltacloea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Oltacloea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Oltacloea
Mello-Leitão, 1940[1]
Type species
O. mutilata
Mello-Leitão, 1940
Species
  • Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1997 – Brazil Brescovit & Ramos, 2003 – Brazil
  • O. mutilata O. beltraoae
  • Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Argentina O. ribaslangei

Oltacloea is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.[2] (As of June 2019) it contains only three species, found only in Argentina and Brazil : O. beltraoae, O. mutilata, and O. ribaslangei.[1] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Oltacloea Mello-Leitão, 1940". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2456. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940). "Tres géneros extraños de arañas argentinas". Notas del Museo de la Plata 5: 251–258. 
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226. 

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