Madagascarchaea namoroka

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Archaeidae
Genus: Madagascarchaea
Species: Madagascarchaea namoroka

Name

Madagascarchaea namoroka (Wood, 2008)

Type locality: beating low vegetation in tropical dry forest at 140m elevation, Parc National de Namoroka, 9.8 km WNW of Vilanandro, Mahajanga province, Madagascar.

Holotype: CAS. male ♂. 4–8.XI.2002. legit Fisher/Griswold Arthropod Survey team. CASENT 9018935.

Synonymy

• Eriauchenius namoroka Wood, 2008: 287 (original combination)
• Madagascarchaea namoroka (Wood): Wood & Scharff, 2018: 71

References

Primary references

• Wood, H.M. 2008. A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriauchenius gracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152(2): 255–296. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Wood, H.M. & Scharff, N. 2018. A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.727.20222. Reference page.