Leichhardteus

Leichhardteus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Leichhardteus Raven & Baehr, 2013[1]
Type species
L. conopalpis Baehr & Raven, 2013
Species
11, see text

Leichhardteus is a genus of Australian corinnid sac spiders first described by B. C. Baehr & Robert Raven in 2013.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains eleven species:[1]

• Leichhardteus albofasciatus Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Leichhardteus badius Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
• Leichhardteus bimaculatus Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
• Leichhardteus conopalpis Baehr & Raven, 2013 (type) – Eastern Australia
• Leichhardteus evschlingeri Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Leichhardteus garretti Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
• Leichhardteus kroombit Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Leichhardteus reinhardi Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
• Leichhardteus strzelecki Raven, 2015 – Australia (Victoria)
• Leichhardteus terriirwinae Baehr & Raven, 2013 – Australia (Queensland)
• Leichhardteus yagan Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)

References

1. "Gen. Leichhardteus Raven & Baehr, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
2. Baehr, B. C.; Raven, R. J. (2013). "The new Australian ground-hunting spider genus Leichardteus (Araneae: Corinnidae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 58: 339–358. doi:10.17082/j.220401478.58.2013.2013-12.