''Utivarachna'' is a
genus of
Asian
araneomorph spiders in the family
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 ...
first described by
Kyukichi Kishida
was a Japanese zoologist, who published in mammalogy and arachnology. He described several spider genera or species including :
* ''Heptathela
''Heptathela'' is a genus of spiders that includes the Kimura spider (''Heptathela kimurai''). Th ...
in 1940.
It was largely ignored until
Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold
Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (born 23 November 1930) is a Dutch arachnologist. She specializes in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 Sou ...
revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring some species from ''
Trachelas
''Trachelas'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders originally placed with the Trachelidae, 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 i ...
'' and adding several new ones.
The genus was further expanded in 2014 and 2015.
Species
it contains seventeen species in southeast Asia:
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Utivarachna accentuata''
( Simon, 1896) – Sri Lanka
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Utivarachna arcuata''
Zhao & Peng, 2014 – China
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Utivarachna bucculenta''
Deeleman-Reinhold
Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (born 23 November 1930) is a Dutch arachnologist. She specializes in spiders from Southeast Asia and Southern Europe, particularly cave-dwelling and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 Sou ...
, 2001 – Thailand
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Utivarachna chamaeleon''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
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Utivarachna dusun''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
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Utivarachna fabaria''
Zhao & Peng, 2014 – China
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Utivarachna fronto
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, tr ...
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(Simon, 1906) – India
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Utivarachna fukasawana''
Kishida, 1940 (
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) – Borneo
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Utivarachna gongshanensis''
Zhao & Peng, 2014 – China
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Utivarachna gui''
(Zhu, Song & Kim, 1998) – China
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Utivarachna ichneumon''
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
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Utivarachna kinabaluensis
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
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Utivarachna lata
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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Jin, Yin & Zhang, 2015 – China
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Utivarachna phyllicola
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
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Utivarachna rama
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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Chami-Kranon & Likhitrakarn, 2007 – Thailand
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Utivarachna rubra
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
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Utivarachna taiwanica
''Utivarachna'' is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940. It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring s ...
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(Hayashi & Yoshida, 1993) – Taiwan
References
Araneomorphae genera
Fauna of Southeast Asia
Spiders of Asia
Trachelidae
Taxa named by Kyukichi Kishida
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