Hexathele | |
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Female Hexathele hochstetteri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Hexathelidae |
Genus: | Hexathele Ausserer, 1871[1] |
Type species | |
H. hochstetteri Ausserer, 1871
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Species | |
20, see text |
Hexathele is a genus of tunnelweb spiders endemic to New Zealand that was first described by Anton Ausserer in 1871,[2] though most others have been described by Raymond Robert Forster.[1] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980.[3]
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