''Austrochilus'' is a

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South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

cribellate Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or o ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their cl ...

spiders in the family

Austrochilidae Austrochilidae is a small spider family with nine species in two genera. ''Austrochilus'' and ''Thaida'' are endemic to the Andean forest of central and southern Chile and adjacent Argentina. Taxonomy , two genera are placed in the family Austro ...

, first described by H. Zapfe in 1955.

Species

it contains seven species in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

and

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

: *'' Austrochilus forsteri'' Grismado, Lopardo & Platnick, 2003 – Chile *'' Austrochilus franckei'' Platnick, 1987 – Chile, Argentina *'' Austrochilus manni'' Gertsch & Zapfe, 1955 ( type) – Chile *'' Austrochilus melon'' Platnick, 1987 – Chile *'' Austrochilus newtoni'' Platnick, 1987 – Chile *'' Austrochilus parwis'' Michalik & Wunderlich, 2017 – Chile *'' Austrochilus schlingeri'' Platnick, 1987 – Chile

References

Araneomorphae genera Austrochilidae Spiders of South America {{Austrochilidae-stub