Madagascarchaea legendrei

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 legendrei

Name

Madagascarchaea legendrei (Platnick, 1991)

Type locality: Madagascar, 7 km W of Ranomafana, Fianarantsoa, 1100m.

Holotype USNM. male ♂. 01-07.XI.1988. legit W.E. Steiner.

Synonymy

• Archaea legendrei Platnick, 1991: 137 (original combination)
• Eriauchenius legendrei (Platnick): Wood, 2008: 286
• Madagascarchaea legendrei (Platnick): Wood & Scharff, 2018: 76

References

Primary references

• Platnick, N.I. 1991. On Malagasy Archaea (Araneae, Archaeidae). Journal of African Zoology 105: 135-140. Reference page. 

Additional 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. 
• 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.