Physoglenes

Physoglenes is a genus of Chilean araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1904.[2] It has been listed under several different families, including Leptonetidae,[2] Pholcidae,[3] Synotaxidae,[4] and most recently, Physoglenidae.[5]

Physoglenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Physoglenidae
Genus:	Physoglenes Simon, 1904[1]
Type species
P. vivesi Simon, 1904
Species
4, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains four species, found in Chile:[1]

• Physoglenes chepu Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes lagos Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes puyehue Platnick, 1990 – Chile
• Physoglenes vivesi Simon, 1904 (type) – Chile

See also

• List of Physoglenidae species

References

1. "Gen. Physoglenes Simon, 1904". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Simon, E. (1904). "Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 48: 83–114.
3. Petrunkevitch, A. (1928). "Systema Aranearum". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 29: 112.
4. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 10.
5. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.