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Strotarchus

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Strotarchus
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
S. piscatorius from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Genus: Strotarchus
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
S. nebulosus
Simon, 1888
Species

20, see text

Synonyms[1]

Strotarchus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.[4] Originally added to the Clubionidae,[4] it was moved to the Miturgidae in 1967,[5] and to the Cheiracanthiidae in 2014.[6] It is considered a senior synonym of Marcellina[3] and Coreidon.[2]

Species

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As of September 2019 it contains twenty species, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, and Pakistan:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Strotarchus Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  2. ^ a b Ramírez, M. J.; Grismado, C.; Blick, T. (2004). "Notes on the spider family Agelenidae in southern South America (Arachnida: Araneae)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 9: 181.
  3. ^ a b Edwards, R. J. (1958). "The spider subfamily Clubioninae of the United States, Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Clubionidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 118: 373.
  4. ^ a b Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
  5. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 321.
  6. ^ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 342. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.