Keilira

This article is about spiders. For the locality, see Keilira, South Australia.

Keilira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Keilira Hirst, 1989[1]
Type species
K. sparsomaculata Hirst, 1989
Species
K. sokoli Hirst, 1989 – Australia (Victoria) K. sparsomaculata Hirst, 1989 – Australia (South Australia)

Keilira is a genus of Australian huntsman spiders that was first described by D. B. Hirst in 1989.[2] As of September 2019^[update], it contains two species that are found in South Australia and Victoria: K. sokoli and K. sparsomaculata.[1]

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

References

1. "Gen. Keilira Hirst, 1989". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Hirst, D. B. (1989). "A new genus of huntsman spider (Heteropodidae: Araneae) from south eastern Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 113: 7–13.