Kukulcania

Kukulcania is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] It is named after Kukulkan, a Mesoamerican serpent deity.[3]

Kukulcania
Southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Kukulcania
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
K. hibernalis
(Hentz, 1842)
Species

15, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species found in the Americas, including the United States, Peru, and Chile:[1]

  • Kukulcania arizonica (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
  • Kukulcania bajacali Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania benita Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico (San Benito Is., Baja California)
  • Kukulcania brignolii (Alayón, 1981) – Mexico
  • Kukulcania chingona Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania cochimi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania geophila (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
  • Kukulcania gertschi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania hibernalis (Hentz, 1842) (type) – USA, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America
  • Kukulcania hurca (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) – USA, Mexico
  • Kukulcania mexicana Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania santosi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Probably introduced in Peru, Chile
  • Kukulcania tequila Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
  • Kukulcania tractans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
  • Kukulcania utahana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
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References
  1. "Gen. Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
  3. "Genus Kukulcania". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.


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