''Trechalea'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s in the family
Trechaleidae
Trechaleidae (''tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee'') is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. It includes about 140 described species in 16 genera. They all live in Central and South America except for '' Shinobius orienta ...
. The species of this genus are found in the
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: ...
from the United States south to Peru and Brazil.
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Taxonomy
The genus was first erected by Carl L. Koch in 1848, and given the name ''Triclaria''. However, this name was already in use for a genus of parrots, and in 1869, Tord T.T. Thorell proposed the replacement name ''Trechalea''. The name is derived from the Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
, meaning "rough" or "savage".[
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Species
, the World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following species:[
*'' Trechalea amazonica'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Trinidad, Colombia, Brazil
*'' Trechalea bucculenta'' (Simon, 1898) – Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia
*'' Trechalea connexa'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
*'' Trechalea extensa'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
*'' Trechalea gertschi'' Carico & Minch, 1981 – USA, Mexico
*'' Trechalea longitarsis'' (C. L. Koch, 1847) (]type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
) – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
*'' Trechalea macconnelli'' Pocock, 1900 – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname
*'' Trechalea paucispina'' Caporiacco, 1947 – Peru, Brazil, Guyana
*'' Trechalea tirimbina'' Silva & Lapinski, 2012 – Costa Rica
References
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
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