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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 18981 |
| Type species | |
| M. pax Reiskind, 1969
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Mazax is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.2
Species
As of July 2025 it contains ten species from the Americas and the Caribbean:1
- Mazax ajax Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
- Mazax chickeringi Reiskind, 1969 – Jamaica
- Mazax kaspari Cokendolpher, 1978 – USA
- Mazax leonidas -Colombia 3
- Mazax mokana - Colombia and Venezuela 3
- Mazax pax Reiskind, 1969 (type) – USA to Panama
- Mazax ramirezi Rubio & Danişman, 2014 – Argentina
- Mazax spinosa (Simon, 1898) – Central America, Lesser Antilles
- Mazax tembe - Brazil 3
- Mazax xerxes Reiskind, 1969 – Costa Rica
References
References
- "Gen. Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
- Silva-Junior, Cláudio J.; Martínez, Leonel; Villarreal, Eduardo; Bonaldo, Alexandre B. (2024-11-13). "Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America". European Journal of Taxonomy (968). Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle: 219–255. Bibcode:2024EJTax.968..219S. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731. ISSN 2118-9773.