''Trachelas'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders originally placed with the

Trachelidae Trachelidae is a family of araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The Trachelidae fam ...

, and later moved to the Corinnidae. Though the name was first used in an identification key published by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866, it did not include a description for either genders. In 1872,

O. Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and work Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...

described the type species, ascribing it to the same name given several years earlier. Koch revisited the genus and covered it more thoroughly shortly after the type species was described.

Species

it contains eighty-eight species: *'' T. alticola'' Hu, 2001 – China *'' T. anomalus'' (

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, 1874) – French Guiana *'' T. barroanus'' Chamberlin, 1925 – Panama *'' T. bicolor''

Keyserling Keyserling is the surname of several members of the noble House of Keyserlingk: * Alexander Keyserling (1815–1891), Russian geologist, paleontologist, botanist and zoologist * Eugen von Keyserling (1833–1889), German arachnologist * Hermann ...

, 1887 – Hispaniola *'' T. bispinosus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico to Panama, Trinidad *'' T. borinquensis''

Gertsch Willis John Gertsch (October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1998) was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider. Gertsch was born ...

, 1942 – Puerto Rico *'' T. brachialis'' Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 – China *'' T. bravidus'' Chickering, 1972 – Jamaica *'' T. bulbosus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico to El Salvador *'' T. cadulus'' Chickering, 1972 – Jamaica *'' T. cambridgei'' Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador to Panama *'' T. canariensis'' Wunderlich, 1987 – Spain, Canary Is., Africa *'' T. chamoli'' Quasin, Siliwal & Uniyal, 2018 – India *'' T. chubbi'' Lessert, 1921 – East Africa *'' T. contractus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Cuba *''Trachelas costatus, T. costatus'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – Pakistan, India *''Trachelas crassus, T. crassus'' Rivera-Quiroz & Álvarez-Padilla, 2015 – Mexico *''Trachelas daubei, T. daubei'' Günter Schmidt (arachnologist), Schmidt, 1971 – Ecuador *''Trachelas depressus, T. depressus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico *''Trachelas devi, T. devi'' Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2000 – Bangladesh *''Trachelas digitus, T. digitus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Costa Rica *''Trachelas dilatus, T. dilatus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Hispaniola *''Trachelas ductonuda, T. ductonuda'' Rivera-Quiroz & Álvarez-Padilla, 2015 – Mexico *''Trachelas ecudobus, T. ecudobus'' Chickering, 1972 – Panama, Trinidad *''Trachelas erectus, T. erectus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Hispaniola *''Trachelas fanjingshan, T. fanjingshan'' Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009 – China *''Trachelas fasciae, T. fasciae'' Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009 – China *''Trachelas femoralis, T. femoralis'' Eugène Simon, Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent *''Trachelas fuscus, T. fuscus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico *''Trachelas gaoligongensis, T. gaoligongensis'' Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 – China *''Trachelas giganteus, T. giganteus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Jamaica *''Trachelas gigapophysis, T. gigapophysis'' Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 – China *''Trachelas hamatus, T. hamatus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico *''Trachelas hassleri, T. hassleri'' Gertsch, 1942 – Guyana *''Trachelas himalayensis, T. himalayensis'' Biswas, 1993 – India *''Trachelas huachucanus, T. huachucanus'' Gertsch, 1942 – Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico *''Trachelas inclinatus, T. inclinatus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Cuba *''Trachelas jamaicensis, T. jamaicensis'' Gertsch, 1942 – Jamaica *''Trachelas japonicus, T. japonicus'' Bösenberg & Embrik Strand, Strand, 1906 – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan *''Trachelas lanceolatus, T. lanceolatus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico *''Trachelas latus, T. latus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico, Guatemala *''Trachelas mexicanus, T. mexicanus'' Nathan Banks, Banks, 1898 – Utah and Colorado, south to Mexico *''Trachelas minor, T. minor'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Type species, type) – Mediterranean to Central Asia, West Africa *''Trachelas mombachensis, T. mombachensis'' Leister & Miller, 2015 – Nicaragua *''Trachelas mulcetus, T. mulcetus'' Chickering, 1972 – Jamaica *''Trachelas nanyueensis, T. nanyueensis'' Yin, 2012 – China *''Trachelas niger, T. niger'' Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil *''Trachelas nigrifemur, T. nigrifemur'' Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia *''Trachelas oculus, T. oculus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Cuba *''Trachelas odoreus, T. odoreus'' Rivera-Quiroz & Álvarez-Padilla, 2015 – Mexico *''Trachelas oreophilus, T. oreophilus'' Simon, 1906 – India, Sri Lanka *''Trachelas organatus, T. organatus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Arizona, Sonora, Baja California, Mexico *''Trachelas pacificus, T. pacificus'' Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie, Ivie, 1935 – California, Nevada, Mexico *''Trachelas panamanus, T. panamanus'' Chickering, 1937 – Panama *''Trachelas parallelus, T. parallelus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Nicaragua *''Trachelas planus, T. planus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Costa Rica *''Trachelas prominens, T. prominens'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico to Panama *''Trachelas punctatus, T. punctatus'' Simon, 1886 – Senegal *''Trachelas pusillus, T. pusillus'' Lessert, 1923 – South Africa, Lesotho *''Trachelas quadridens, T. quadridens'' Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador, Costa Rica *''Trachelas quisquiliarum, T. quisquiliarum'' Simon, 1906 – Sri Lanka *''Trachelas robustus, T. robustus'' Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil *''Trachelas rotundus, T. rotundus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico *''Trachelas rugosus, T. rugosus'' Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil *''Trachelas santaemartae, T. santaemartae'' Schmidt, 1971 – Colombia *''Trachelas scopulifer, T. scopulifer'' Simon, 1896 – South Africa *''Trachelas shilinensis, T. shilinensis'' Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2017 – China *''Trachelas similis, T. similis'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Southeastern United States to Costa Rica *''Trachelas sinensis, T. sinensis'' Chen, Peng & Zhao, 1995 – China *''Trachelas sinuosus, T. sinuosus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Southern Georgia and Florida *''Trachelas speciosus, T. speciosus'' Banks, 1898 – Mexico *''Trachelas spicus, T. spicus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Mexico *''Trachelas spinulatus, T. spinulatus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Central America *''Trachelas spirifer, T. spirifer'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Guatemala, Honduras *''Trachelas submissus, T. submissus'' Gertsch, 1942 – Paraguay *''Trachelas sylvae, T. sylvae'' Lodovico di Caporiacco, Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya *''Trachelas tanasevitchi, T. tanasevitchi'' Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2010 – Russia (Far East) *''Trachelas tomaculus, T. tomaculus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Cuba, Hispaniola *''Trachelas tranquillus, T. tranquillus'' (Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Hentz, 1847) – Midwest to Eastern United States, Canada *''Trachelas transversus, T. transversus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico, Costa Rica *''Trachelas triangulus, T. triangulus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Panama *''Trachelas tridentatus, T. tridentatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1947 – Brazil *''Trachelas trifidus, T. trifidus'' Platnick & Shadab, 1974 – Panama *''Trachelas truncatulus, T. truncatulus'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Mexico *''Trachelas uniaculeatus, T. uniaculeatus'' Schmidt, 1956 – Canary Is. *''Trachelas vitiosus, T. vitiosus'' Keyserling, 1891 – Brazil *''Trachelas volutus, T. volutus'' Gertsch, 1935 – Southeastern United States, Mexico *''Trachelas vulcani, T. vulcani'' Simon, 1896 – China, Japan, Indonesia (Java, Moluccas)

References

External links

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