Arachnura
| Arachnura | |
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| A. melanura, female | |
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| A. logio, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Arachnura Vinson, 1863[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. scorpionoides Vinson, 1863
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Arachnura, also known as drag-tailed spider, scorpion-tailed spider and scorpion spider, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders that was first described by A. Vinson in 1863.[2] They are distributed across Australasia, Southern and Eastern Asia with one species from Africa.[1] Females can grow up to 1 to 3 centimetres (0.39 to 1.18 in) long, while males reach only 2 millimetres (0.079 in) long. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "arachne-" (ἀράχνη) and "uro" (
Arachnura logio is called Kijiro o-hiki-gumo in Japanese. A. feredayi is commonly called Tailed forest spider. A. higginsi is often found in large numbers near water in Australia.
Species
[edit]As of February 2020[update] it contains twelve species, found in Africa, Oceania, and Asia:[1]
- Arachnura angura Tikader, 1970 – India
- Arachnura feredayi (L. Koch, 1872) – New Zealand
- Arachnura heptotubercula Yin, Hu & Wang, 1983 – China
- Arachnura higginsi (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia
- Arachnura logio Yaginuma, 1956 – China, Korea, Japan
- Arachnura melanura Simon, 1867 – India to Indonesia (Sulawesi) and Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)
- Arachnura perfissa (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
- Arachnura pygmaea (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Nias Is.)
- Arachnura quinqueapicata Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
- Arachnura scorpionoides Vinson, 1863 (type) – Congo, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Mayotte, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion
- Arachnura simoni Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
- Arachnura spinosa (Saito, 1933) – Taiwan
In synonymy:
- A. longicauda Urquhart, 1885 = Arachnura feredayi (L. Koch, 1872)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Arachnura Vinson, 1863". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
- ^ Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de la Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar.
- ^ "Scorpion-tailed Spiders". The Bug Chicks. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
External links
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