Austrarchaea
Genus of spiders
Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.[ 2] 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011,[ 3] 2012,[ 4] and 2024.[ 5]
Species
As of May 2024[update] it contains thirty species:[ 1]
Austrarchaea alani Rix & Harvey , 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea aleenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea andersoni Rix, 2024 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea binfordae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea christopheri Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea clyneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Austrarchaea cunninghami Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea davidi Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea dianneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea harmsi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea helenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea hoskini Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea judyae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea karenae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea laidlawae Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea mascordi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea mcguiganae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea milledgei Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea monteithi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea nodosa (Forster, 1956) (type ) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Austrarchaea platnickorum Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea smithae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
Austrarchaea tealei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea thompsoni Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea wallacei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea westi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Austrarchaea woodae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
References
^ a b "Gen. Austrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-16 .
^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 178 : 1–106.
^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (15 August 2011). "Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia" . ZooKeys . 123 (123): 1–100. doi :10.3897/ZOOKEYS.123.1448 . ISSN 1313-2989 . PMC 3175121 . PMID 21998529 . Wikidata Q21192137 .
^ Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (30 August 2012). "Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland" . ZooKeys . 218 (218): 1–50. doi :10.3897/ZOOKEYS.218.3662 . ISSN 1313-2989 . PMC 3433871 . PMID 22977344 . Wikidata Q21191855 .
^ Rix, Michael G; Harvey, Mark S (15 May 2024). "A new species of pelican spider (Araneae: Archaeidae) from the Whitsunday hinterland of central-eastern Queensland". Australian Journal of Taxonomy . 64 : 1–7. doi :10.54102/ajt.8sf6i .