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Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984. 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011, 2012, and 2024.

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It sits within the topics Araneomorphae genera, Archaeidae and Spiders of Australia.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyArchaeidae

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Specimen records
60
Family
Archaeidae
Collections
QM, AM
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Archaeidæ
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Commons category
Austrarchaea
taxon name
Austrarchaea
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Austrarchaea
endemic to
Australia
taxon author citation
Forster & Platnick, 1984
taxonomic type
Austrarchaea nodosa
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Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984. 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011, 2012, and 2024.

==Species== it contains thirty species: Austrarchaea alani Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea aleenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea andersoni Rix, 2024 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea binfordae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea christopheri Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea clyneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) Austrarchaea cunninghami Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea davidi Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea dianneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea harmsi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea helenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea hoskini Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea judyae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea karenae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea laidlawae Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea mascordi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea mcguiganae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea milledgei Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea monteithi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea nodosa (Forster, 1956) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) Austrarchaea platnickorum Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea smithae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea tealei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea thompsoni Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea wallacei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea westi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea woodae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)

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