Plesiolena is a small genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It was first described by Pablo A. Goloboff and Norman I. Platnick in 1987,[2] and it has only been found in Chile.[1] The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena.[2] As of November 2021[update] it contains only 2 species: P. bonneti and P. jorgelina.[1]
| Plesiolena | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Actinopodidae |
| Genus: | Plesiolena Goloboff & Platnick, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. bonneti (Zapfe, 1961)
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See also
edit- List of Actinopodidae species
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Plesiolena Goloboff & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ a b Goloboff, P. A.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "A review of the Chilean spiders of the superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)". American Museum Novitates (2888): 1–15.
Further reading
edit- Goloboff, P. A. (1994). "Migoidea de Chile, nuevas o poco conocidas (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 53: 65–74.
- Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 1–180.
- Raven, R. J. (1984). "Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia". Australian Journal of Zoology. 32 (3): 379–390. doi:10.1071/ZO9840379.
- Legendre, Roland; Calderón-Gonzalez, Raul (1984). "Liste systématique des araignées mygalomorphes du Chili". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 6 (A): 1021–1065.
- Zapfe, H. (1961). "La familia Migidae en Chile". Investigaciones Zoológicas Chilenas. 7: 151–157.