''Parachemmis'' is a
genus
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of
corinnid sac spiders first described by
Arthur M. Chickering in 1937 as a genus of
ground spider
Ground spiders comprise Gnaphosidae, the seventh largest spider family with over 2,000 described species in over 100 genera distributed worldwide. There are 105 species known to central Europe, and common genera include '' Gnaphosa'', '' Drassode ...
s.
It was transferred to
Liocranidae
Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus '' Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscur ...
in 1969,
and to Corinnidae in 1994.
Species
it contains four species in
Central and
South America
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:
*''
Parachemmis fuscus''
Chickering, 1937 (
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) – Panama
*''
Parachemmis hassleri''
( Gertsch, 1942) – Guyana
*''
Parachemmis julioblancoi''
Martinez-G & Villarreal, 2017 – Colombia
*''
Parachemmis manauara''
Bonaldo, 2000 – Brazil
References
Araneomorphae genera
Corinnidae
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America
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