Madagascarchaea ambre

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Archaeidae
Genus: Madagascarchaea
Species: Madagascarchaea ambre

Name

Madagascarchaea ambre (Wood, 2008)

Type locality: forest at approximately 1000 m elevation, Parc National Montagne d’Ambre, 2.79 km NE of park entrance, Antsiranana Province, Madagascar.

Holotype: CAS. male ♂. 30.XI.1993. legit J. Coddington, C. Griswold, N. Scharff, S. Larcher, and R. Andriamasimanana. CASENT 9012012.

Synonymy

• Eriauchenius ambre Wood, 2008: 263 (original combination)
• Madagascarchaea ambre (Wood): Wood & Scharff, 2018: 71

References

Primary references

• Wood, H.M. 2008. A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriauchenius gracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152(2): 255–296. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00359.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Wood, H.M. & Scharff, N. 2018. A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.727.20222. Reference page.