Plesiolena

Plesiolena is a small genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae, first described by Pablo A. Goloboff & Norman I. Platnick in 1987. The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena.[2] As of March 2019, it contains two species.[1]

Plesiolena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Actinopodidae
Genus: Plesiolena
Goloboff & Platnick, 1987[1]
Type species
P. bonneti (Zapfe, 1961)
Species
  • P. bonneti (Zapfe, 1961) — Chile
  • P. jorgelina Goloboff, 1994 — Chile

References

  1. "Gen. Plesiolena Goloboff & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  2. Goloboff, P. A.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "A review of the Chilean spiders of the superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". American Museum Novitates. 2888: 1–15.


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