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Nomindra

Nomindra is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006. Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.

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Nomindra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Nomindra
Platnick & Baehr, 20061
Type species
N. kinchega
Platnick & Baehr, 2006
Species

16, see text

Nomindra is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006.2 Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.3

Species

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory:1

  • Nomindra arenaria Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Nomindra barlee Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Nomindra berrimah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Nomindra cocklebiddy Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Nomindra cooma Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Nomindra fisheri Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Nomindra flavipes (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
  • Nomindra gregory Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
  • Nomindra indulkana Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
  • Nomindra jarrnarm Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
  • Nomindra kinchega Platnick & Baehr, 2006 (type) – Australia (South Australia, Queensland to Victoria)
  • Nomindra leeuweni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Southern Australia
  • Nomindra ormiston Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
  • Nomindra thatch Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Nomindra woodstock Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Nomindra yeni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia to Queensland)
References

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Nomindra Platnick & Baehr, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 1–287. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5788.
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.