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Plesiolena

Plesiolena is a small genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It was first described by Pablo A. Goloboff and Norman I. Platnick in 1987, and it has only been found in Chile. The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena. As of November 2021 it contains only 2 species: P. bonneti and P. jorgelina.

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Plesiolena
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Actinopodidae
Genus: Plesiolena
Goloboff & Platnick, 19871
Type species
P. bonneti
(Zapfe, 1961)
Species
  • Plesiolena bonneti (Zapfe, 1961)
  • Plesiolena jorgelina Goloboff, 1994

Plesiolena is a small genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It was first described by Pablo A. Goloboff and Norman I. Platnick in 1987,2 and it has only been found in Chile.1 The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena.2 As of November 2021 it contains only 2 species: P. bonneti and P. jorgelina.1

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References

  1. "Gen. Plesiolena Goloboff & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  2. Goloboff, P. A.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "A review of the Chilean spiders of the superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". American Museum Novitates (2888): 1–15.
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