Artifex (spider)

Artifex is a small genus of orb-weaver spiders native to tropical regions of mainland Australia and to New Caledonia. The genus was erected by R. J. Kallal and Gustavo Hormiga in 2018 to contain two species moved from different genera that have several synapomorphies, including an abdomen that extends past the spinnerets, widely separated spermathecae, and dorsal markings similar to those of Zygiellinae.[2] The name is a combination of the Latin "ars", meaning "art", and "-fex", meaning "maker" in reference to the shelters they build out of leaves.[2]

Artifex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Artifex
Kallal & Hormiga, 2018[1]
Type species
Epeira melanopyga
(L. Koch, 1871)
Species
  • Artifex joannae (Berland, 1924)
  • Artifex melanopyga (L. Koch, 1871)

As of April 2022 it contains only two species: A. joannae and A. melanopyga.[1]

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Artifex Kallal & Hormiga, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  2. Kallal, R. J.; Hormiga, G. (2018). "Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184 (4): 1055–1141. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014.

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