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Megahexura

Megahexura is a genus of spiders with the sole species Megahexura fulva, discovered in 1919. As of January 2026, it is the only genus in the family Megahexuridae.

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Megahexura
Megahexura fulva in Sierra de Salinas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Atypoidea
Family: Megahexuridae
Hedin & Bond, 20192
Genus: Megahexura
Kaston, 19721
Species:
M. fulva
Binomial name
Megahexura fulva
(Chamberlin, 1919)1

Megahexura is a genus of spiders with the sole species Megahexura fulva, discovered in 1919.1 As of January 2026, it is the only genus in the family Megahexuridae.2

Native to the United States,1 more specifically California,3 the spiders build an exposed sheet web with a funnel-shaped retreat in holes and crevices along ravine banks.4

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References

  1. "Gen. Megahexura Kaston, 1972", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-07-15
  2. "Family Megahexuridae Hedin & Bond, 2019", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-07-15
  3. "Genus Megahexura".
  4. Hedin, M.; Derkarabetian, S.; Alfaro, A.; Ramírez, M. J.; Bond, J. E. (2019). "Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci". PeerJ. 7 e6864. doi:10.7717/peerj.6864. PMC 6501763. PMID 31110925.
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