Antillena
| Antillena | |
|---|---|
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| Antillena rickwesti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Antillena Bertani, Hiff & Fukushima, 2017[1] |
| Type species | |
| Avicularia rickwesti | |
Antillena is a genus of spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, the tarantulas and related spiders. The species in this genus are endemic to the island of Hispaniola.
Species
[edit]Antillena contains the following species:[3][4]
- Antillena miguelangeli de los Santos & Bertani, 2024
- Antillena rickwesti (Bertrani & Huff, 2013)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Gen. Antillena Bertani, Hiff & Fukushima, 2017", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-10
- ↑ Fukushima, C.S. & Bertani, R. (2017), "Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera", ZooKeys (659): 1–185, Suppl. 1–5, Bibcode:2017ZooK..659....1F, doi:10.3897/zookeys.659.10717, PMC 5345366, PMID 28331414
- ↑ Santos, G.D.L. & Bertani, R. (2024). "A new species of the Hispaniolan endemic genus Antillena Bertani, Huff and Fukushima, 2017 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae), with notes on the natural history of the genus". Zootaxa. 5493 (4): 419–430. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5493.4.7.
- ↑ Bertani, R. & Huff, J. (2013). "Avicularia rickwesti sp. nov., a remarkable new species of Avicularia (Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae) from Dominican Republic". Zoologia. 30 (3): 333–337. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702013000300012.