Zephyrarchaea marki

Zephyrarchaea marki, the Cape Le Grand assassin spider, is a spider in the family Archaeidae. The species was first described by Michael G. Rix and Mark Harvey in 2012. It is endemic to Cape Le Grand National Park in Australia.[1]

Zephyrarchaea marki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Archaeidae
Genus: Zephyrarchaea
Species:
Z. marki
Binomial name
Zephyrarchaea marki
Rix & Harvey, 2012

Taxonomy

The holotype of the species was collected in Thistle Cove in Cape Le Grand National Park in Western Australia. The specific epithet is in honour of Mark Wojcieszek, who helped discover the first specimens of the species.[2]

Description

The males of the species are 2.77–2.79 mm in length.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The species is known only from its type locality at Thistle Cove at Cape Le Grand National Park. They were found in leaf litter in a dense coastal thicket of Banksia speciosa.[2]

Conservation

The species is endemic and has an extremely small range, with the only known population at the Cape Le Grand National Park possibly being threatened by fire, dieback disease, and climate change.[2]

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References
  1. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  2. Rix, Michael G.; Harvey, Mark S. (2012-05-07). "Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia". ZooKeys (191): 1–62. doi:10.3897/zookeys.191.3070. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3353492. PMID 22639534. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) license.


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