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Achaearanea

Achaearanea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Achaearanea
Strand, 1929[1]
Type species
A. trapezoidalis
(Taczanowski, 1873)
Species

28, see text

Achaearanea is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1929.[2]

It used to include the extremely abundant common house spider, which was transferred to genus Parasteatoda in 2006, together with many other species. A. veruculata and many more species were moved to genus Cryptachaea in 2008. Others were moved to the revived Henziectypus. The genus was thus reduced from about 150 species to about 22 species during major revisions.[3] Possibly even more species should be transferred to other genera.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.
  3. ^ Norman I. Platnick (2013). "The world spider catalog, version 14.0". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  4. ^ Hajime Yoshida (2008). "A revision of the genus Achaearanea (Araneae: Theridiidae)" (PDF). Acta Arachnologica. 57 (1): 37–40.[permanent dead link]

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