Trachelas

Trachelas
T. tranquillus from Virginia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Trachelas
L. Koch, 1872[1]
Type species
T. minor
Species

88, see text

Trachelas is a genus of araneomorph spiders which has variously been placed in families Trachelidae or Corinnidae. Current taxonomy places it in Trachelidae.[2]

Though the name was first used in an identification key published by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866,[3] it did not include a description for either genders. In 1872, O. Pickard-Cambridge described the type species, ascribing it to the same name given several years earlier.[4] Koch revisited the genus and covered it more thoroughly shortly after the type species was described.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. p. 2.
  4. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
  5. ^ Koch, L. (1872). "Apterologisches aus dem fränkischen Jura". Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg. 5: 146.