Entychides
Entychides aurantiacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euctenizidae
Genus: Entychides
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
E. aurantiacus
Simon, 1888
Species

4, see text

Entychides is a genus of mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985,[3] then to the Euctenizidae in 2012.[4]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species in Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and the Lesser Antilles:[1][2][5]

  • Entychides arizonicus Gertsch & Wallace, 1936 – USA
  • Entychides aurantiacus Simon, 1888 (type) – Mexico
  • Entychides dugesi Simon, 1888 – Mexico
  • Entychides guadalupensis Simon, 1888 – Guadeloupe

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Entychides Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
  4. ↑ Bond, J. E.; et al. (2012). "A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology". PLOS ONE. 7 (6): 10. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738753B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038753. PMC 3378619. PMID 22723885.
  5. ↑ Bond, Jason E.; Opell, Brent D. (2002). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (3): 487–534. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x.


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