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Ixchela

Ixchela is a genus of spiders that belongs to the family Pholcidae. Members of this genus can be found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.

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Ixchela
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Ixchela
Huber, 20001
Type species
I. furcula
Species

22, see text

Ixchela is a genus of spiders that belongs to the family Pholcidae (cellar spiders). Members of this genus can be found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.1

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000 with the type species being Ixchela furcula.2

Species

As of November 2021 this genus contains 22 described species. They are listed below:1

  • Ixchela abernathyi (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela azteca Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Aztec people.3
  • Ixchela franckei Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) (type) – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
  • Ixchela grix Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela huasteca Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after La Huasteca, where this species is found.4
  • Ixchela huberi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela jalisco Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the state of Jalisco, where this species is found.3
  • Ixchela juarezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after Benito Juárez.4
  • Ixchela mendozai Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico
  • Ixchela mixe Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Mixe people.4
  • Ixchela panchovillai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Pancho Villa.5
  • Ixchela pecki (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela placida (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela purepecha Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Purépecha people.3
  • Ixchela santibanezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela simoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
  • Ixchela taxco Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela tlayuda Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the tlayuda dish, typical of Oaxaca, where this species is found.
  • Ixchela tzotzil Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Tzotzil people.4
  • Ixchela viquezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Honduras
  • Ixchela zapatai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Emiliano Zapata.5
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Ixchela Huber, 2000". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  2. Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 1–348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1601. S2CID 83685875.
  3. Valdez-Mondragón, A.; Francke, O. F. (2015). "Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 20–58. doi:10.1111/zoj.12265.
  4. Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with description of ten new species from Mexico and Central America". Zootaxa. 3608 (5): 285–327. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3608.5.1. PMID 24614473. Retrieved 6 November 2021 – via ResearchGate.
  5. Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2020). "COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico". Zootaxa. 4747 (1): 54–76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2. PMID 32230118. S2CID 214748642.