Molycria is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[3]
| Molycria | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Prodidomidae |
| Genus: | Molycria Simon, 1887[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. mammosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of June 2019[update] it contains thirty-six species, found in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland:[1]
- Molycria amphi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria broadwater Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Molycria bulburin Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria bundjalung Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Molycria burwelli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria canonba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Molycria cleveland Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria cooki Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria dalby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Molycria daviesae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria dawson Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria drummond Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria goanna Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Molycria grayi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
- Molycria isla Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria kaputar Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Molycria mammosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Australia (New South Wales, Capital Territory)
- Molycria mcleani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria milledgei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Molycria moffatt Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria monteithi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria moranbah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria nipping Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria quadricauda (Simon, 1908) – Southern Australia
- Molycria raveni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria robert Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria smithae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Molycria stanisici Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria taroom Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria thompsoni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria tooloombah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria upstart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria vokes Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
- Molycria wallacei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria wardeni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
- Molycria wrightae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Molycria Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 25. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.