Genysa

Genysa is a genus of East African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[3] As of May 2019 it contains only three species, all found in Madagascar: G. bicalcarata, G. decorsei, and G. decorsei.[1]

Genysa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Genysa
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
G. bicalcarata
Simon, 1889
Species
  • G. bicalcarata Simon, 1889 – Madagascar
  • G. decorsei (Simon, 1902) – Madagascar
  • G. decorsei (Simon, 1902) – Madagascar
Synonyms[1]

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Genysa Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 152.
  3. Simon, E. (1889). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 223–236.

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