Leichhardteus

Summary

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

Leichhardteus
Scientific classification Edit this 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

Species edit

As of April 2019 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 edit

  1. ^ a b "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.