Molycria

Molycria is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[3]

For the town in ancient Greece, see Molycria (Greece).

Molycria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Molycria
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
M. mammosa
Species

36, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirty-six species, found in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland:[1]

  • Molycria amphi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria broadwater Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Molycria bulburin Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria bundjalung Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Molycria burwelli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria canonba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Molycria cleveland Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria cooki Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria dalby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Molycria daviesae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria dawson Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria drummond Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria goanna Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Molycria grayi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
  • Molycria isla Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria kaputar Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Molycria mammosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Australia (New South Wales, Capital Territory)
  • Molycria mcleani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria milledgei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Molycria moffatt Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria monteithi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria moranbah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria nipping Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria quadricauda (Simon, 1908) – Southern Australia
  • Molycria raveni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria robert Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria smithae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Molycria stanisici Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria taroom Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria thompsoni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria tooloombah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria upstart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria vokes Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
  • Molycria wallacei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria wardeni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Molycria wrightae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Molycria Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 25. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
  3. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.


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