''Anisacate'' 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
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
n
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
Macrobunidae
Macrobunidae is a family of araneomorph spiders. It was treated as a subfamily of Amaurobiidae until elevated to a full family based on a 2023 molecular phylogenetic study.
Taxonomy
A 2023 molecular phylogenetic study of the 'marronoid' group of ...
first described by
Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (July 17, 1886 – December 14, 1948) was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of Arachnida. He was als ...
in 1941.
Species
it contained three species:
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Anisacate fragile''
Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
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Anisacate fuegianum''
(Simon, 1884) – Chile, Argentina
**''
Anisacate f. bransfieldi''
(Usher, 1983) – Falkland Is.
*''
Anisacate tigrinum''
(Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
References
External links
Macrobunidae
Macrobunidae genera
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão
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