''Masteria'' 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
curtain web spiders that was first described by
L. Koch
Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and arachnologist.
He was born in Regensburg, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicin ...
in 1873.
They occur in the tropics of
Central to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
,
Asia
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and
Micronesia
Micronesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of about 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: the Philippines to the west, Polynesia to the east, and ...
, with one species found in
Australia. ''M. petrunkevitchi'' males are long and females are long. ''M. lewisi'', ''M. barona'', and ''M. downeyi'' are slightly smaller and have only six eyes.
Species
it contains 39 species:
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Masteria aguaruna''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Peru
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Masteria aimeae''
(Alayón, 1995) – Cuba
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Masteria amarumayu''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Masteria angienae''
Víquez, 2020 — Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
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Masteria barona''
(Chickering Chickering may refer to:
* Chickering, Suffolk, a place in Suffolk, England
* Chickering & Sons, the piano company that was created by Jonas Chickering
* Arthur M. Chickering, an arachnologist
* Arthur W. Chickering, a researcher of student devel ...
, 1966) – Trinidad
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Masteria caeca''
(Simon
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1892) – Philippines
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Masteria cavicola''
(Simon, 1892) – Philippines
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Masteria chalupas''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria colombiensis''
Raven, 1981 – Colombia
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Masteria downeyi''
(Chickering, 1966) – Costa Rica, Panama
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Masteria franzi''
Raven, 1991 – New Caledonia
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Masteria galipote''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Dominican Rep.
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Masteria golovatchi''
Alayón, 1995 – Cuba
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Masteria guyanensis''
Almeida, Salvatierra & de Morais, 2018 – Guyana
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Masteria hirsuta''
L. Koch, 1873 (
type) – Fiji, Micronesia
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Masteria jatunsacha''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria kaltenbachi''
Raven, 1991 – New Caledonia
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Masteria lasdamas''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria lewisi''
(Chickering, 1964) – Jamaica
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Masteria lucifuga''
(Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
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Masteria macgregori''
(Rainbow, 1898) – New Guinea
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Masteria machay''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria manauara''
Bertani, Cruz & Oliveira, 2013 – Brazil
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Masteria modesta''
(Simon, 1892) – St. Vincent
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Masteria mutum''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
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Masteria otongachi''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria pallida''
( Kulczyński, 1908) – New Guinea
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Masteria papallacta''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria pasochoa''
(Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
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Masteria pecki''
Gertsch, 1982 – Jamaica
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Masteria petrunkevitchi''
(Chickering, 1964) – Puerto Rico
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Masteria sabrinae''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Martinique
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Masteria simla''
(Chickering, 1966) – Trinidad
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Masteria soucouyant''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Trinidad and Tobago
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Masteria spinosa''
( Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
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Masteria tayrona''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia
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Masteria toddae''
Raven, 1979 – Australia (Queensland)
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Masteria urdujae''
Rasalan & Barrion-Dupo, 2019 – Philippines (Luzon)
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Masteria yacambu''
Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Venezuela
References
External links
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Dipluridae
Mygalomorphae genera