''Austrarchaea'' is a
genus
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of
Australia
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n
assassin spiders
Archaeidae, also known as assassin spiders and pelican spiders, is a spider family with about ninety described species in five genera. It contains small spiders, ranging from long, that prey exclusively on other spiders. They are unusual in that ...
first described by
Raymond Robert Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.
Biography
Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...
&
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
in 1984.
A further 25 were described by
Michael Gordon Rix and
Mark Stephen Harvey
Mark Stephen Harvey (born 17 September 1958) is a museum scientist and biologist. Since 1989 he has been based at the Western Australian Museum.
Career
Harvey graduated from Monash University in 1983 with a PhD titled "Contributions to the sy ...
in 2011 and 2012.
Species
it contains twenty-seven species:
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Austrarchaea alani''
Rix & Harvey
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, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea aleenae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea binfordae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea christopheri''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea clyneae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea cunninghami''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea daviesae''
Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea dianneae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea griswoldi''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea harmsi''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea helenae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea hoskini''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea judyae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea karenae''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea mascordi''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea mcguiganae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea milledgei''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea monteithi''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea nodosa''
(Forster, 1956) (
type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea platnickorum''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea raveni''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea smithae''
Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Austrarchaea tealei''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea thompsoni''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea wallacei''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea westi''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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Austrarchaea woodae''
Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
References
Araneomorphae genera
Archaeidae
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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