Mecysmaucheniidae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Mecysmaucheniidae are a spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

family with 25 described species in seven genera.

Distribution

Most genera only occur in South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

(Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

and Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

), with two genera endemic to New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

Species

The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.

Mecysmaucheniinae Simon, 1895

Aotearoa Forster
Raymond Robert Forster
Raymond Robert Forster was a spider expert.He wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17. He studied at Victoria University...

& Platnick
Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D...

, 1984

Aotearoa magna (Forster, 1949) (New Zealand)

Mecysmauchenioides Forster & Platnick, 1984

Mecysmauchenioides nordenskjoldi (Tullgren, 1901) (Chile, Argentina)
Mecysmauchenioides quetrihue Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 (Argentina)

Mecysmauchenius Simon, 1884

Mecysmauchenius canan Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius chacamo Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius chapo Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius chepu Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius chincay Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius eden Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius fernandez Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Juan Fernandez Is.)
Mecysmauchenius gertschi Zapfe, 1960 (Chile, Argentina)
Mecysmauchenius newtoni Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius osorno Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
Mecysmauchenius platnicki Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius puyehue Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius segmentatus Simon, 1884 (Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.)
Mecysmauchenius termas Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius thayerae Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)
Mecysmauchenius victoria Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)
Mecysmauchenius villarrica Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)

Mesarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984

Mesarchaea bellavista Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)

Semysmauchenius Forster & Platnick, 1984

Semysmauchenius antillanca Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile)

Zearchaeinae Forster & Platnick, 1984

Chilarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984

Chilarchaea quellon Forster & Platnick, 1984 (Chile, Argentina)

Zearchaea Wilton, 1946

Zearchaea clypeata Wilton, 1946 (New Zealand)
Zearchaea fiordensis Forster, 1955 (New Zealand)

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