Quemedice is a genus of South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942.[2] As of September 2019[update] it contains two species, found in Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil: Q. enigmaticus and Q. piracuruca.[1] Originally placed with the Philodromidae,[2] it was moved to the Sparassidae in 2008.[3]
| Quemedice | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Quemedice Mello-Leitão, 1942[1] |
| Type species | |
| Q. enigmaticus Mello-Leitão, 1942
| |
| Species | |
| |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Quemedice Mello-Leitão, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ a b Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1942). "Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero". Revista del Museo de La Plata. 2: 381–426.
- ^ Rheims, C. A.; Labarque, F. M.; Ramírez, M. J. (2008). "The South American genus Quemedice Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Sparassidae): familial placement and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa. 1813: 61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1809.1.4.