''Arauchemus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
South America
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n
ground spiders that was first described by R. Ott &
Antônio Brescovit
Antônio Domingos Brescovit (born 1959) is a Brazilian arachnologist. His first name, Antônio (the spelling used in Brazil) may also be spelt António (the spelling used in Portugal). He develops academic activities at the 'arthropodae laboratori ...
in 2012.
it contains only two species, both found in
Brazil
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: ''A. graudo'' and ''A. miudo''.
References
Araneomorphae genera
Gnaphosidae
Spiders of Brazil
Taxa named by Antônio Brescovit
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