''Macrobunus'' 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
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
Albert Tullgren
Hugo Albert Tullgren (7 September 1874, in Stockholm – 1 July 1958) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist.
In 1899 he received his bachelor's degree from Uppsala University, then from 1902 worked as an assistant at the National Entom ...
in 1901.
Species
it contains five species:
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Macrobunus backhauseni''
(Simon, 1896) – Chile, Argentina
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Macrobunus caffer''
(Simon, 1898) – South Africa
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Macrobunus chilensis''
(Simon, 1889) – Chile
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Macrobunus madrynensis''
(Tullgren, 1901) – Argentina
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Macrobunus multidentatus''
(Tullgren, 1902) – Chile
References
External links
Macrobunidae
Macrobunidae genera
Spiders of South America
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