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Hexura is a genus of American folding trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.. Originally placed with Mecicobothriidae, it was moved to Antrodiaetidae in 2019.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAntrodiaetidae
Observations recorded97

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
4
Family
Mecicobothriidae
Collections
MCZ, FMNH
Recorded in
United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Antrodiaetidae
Image
Hexura picea.jpg
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endemic to
United States
taxon name
Hexura
taxon rank
genus
taxonomic type
Hexura picea
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Encyclopedic overview

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Hexura is a genus of American folding trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.. Originally placed with Mecicobothriidae, it was moved to Antrodiaetidae in 2019.

==Species== , this genus includes two species: Hexura picea Simon, 1885 – Canada, United States Hexura rothi Gertsch & Platnick, 1979 – United States

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hexura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.