Anisacate

Anisacate is a genus of South American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1941.[2]

Anisacate
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Anisacate
Mello-Leitão, 1941[1]
Type species
A. fragile
Mello-Leitão, 1941
Species

4, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Anisacate fragile Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
  • Anisacate fuegianum (Simon, 1884) – Chile, Argentina
    • Anisacate f. bransfieldi (Usher, 1983) – Falkland Is.
  • Anisacate tigrinum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina

References

  1. "Gen. Anisacate Mello-Leitão, 1941". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941). "Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén". Revista del Museo de la Plata. 2 (N.S., Zool): 99–198.

"Anisacate" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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