''Trachelopachys'' is a
genus
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of
South America
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n
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1897.
Originally placed with the
Corinnidae
Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much sm ...
, it was moved to the
Trachelidae
Trachelidae is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The ...
in 2014.
Description
Spiders in this genus have a characteristically dark, often jet black, carapace. The legs are reddish, and typically have dark annulations. As with most trachelids, species of ''Trachelopachys'' have no leg spines, however they do bear rows of short, thick, black cuspules on the distal segments of the front two pairs of legs.
Species
it contains fifteen species throughout South America:
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Trachelopachys aemulatus''
Gertsch, 1942 – Paraguay
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Trachelopachys ammobates''
Platnick & Rocha, 1995 – Brazil
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Trachelopachys bicolor''
Chamberlin
The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by the American inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. There are several ...
, 1916 – Peru, Bolivia
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Trachelopachys bidentatus''
Tullgren, 1905 – Bolivia
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Trachelopachys caviunae''
( Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil
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Trachelopachys cingulipes''
(Simon, 1886) – Argentina
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Trachelopachys gracilis''
(Keyserling Keyserling is the surname of several members of the noble House of Keyserlingk:
* Alexander Keyserling (1815–1891), Russian geologist, paleontologist, botanist and zoologist
* Eugen von Keyserling (1833–1889), German arachnologist
* Hermann Gr ...
, 1891) – Brazil
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Trachelopachys ignacio''
Platnick, 1975 – Paraguay
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Trachelopachys keyserlingi''
( Roewer, 1951) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Trachelopachys machupicchu''
Platnick, 1975 – Peru
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Trachelopachys magdalena''
Platnick, 1975 – Colombia
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Trachelopachys quadriocellatus''
(Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina
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Trachelopachys sericeus''
(Simon, 1886) (
type
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* ...
) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile
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Trachelopachys singularis''
( Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
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Trachelopachys tarma''
Platnick, 1975 – Peru
References
Araneomorphae genera
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
Trachelidae
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