Maxanapis

Maxanapis is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick & Raymond Robert Forster in 1989.[2]

Maxanapis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anapidae
Genus: Maxanapis
Platnick & Forster, 1989[1]
Type species
M. bartle
Platnick & Forster, 1989
Species

9, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains nine species:[1]

  • Maxanapis bartle Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Maxanapis bell Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Maxanapis bellenden Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Maxanapis burra (Forster, 1959) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Maxanapis crassifemoralis (Wunderlich, 1976) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Maxanapis dorrigo Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Maxanapis mossman Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Maxanapis tenterfield Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Maxanapis tribulation Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
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References

  1. "Gen. Maxanapis Platnick & Forster, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Forster, R. R. (1989). "A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 190: 1–139.


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