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Leichhardteus

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

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Length
210 w
Citations
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Source
Leichhardteus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Leichhardteus
Raven & Baehr, 20131
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 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

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.