Arkyidae
Sign in to saveArkyidae, also known as triangular spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872 as a subfamily of Araneidae, and later elevated to a full family in 2017.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Arkyidae
- Collections
- AM, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Caledonia
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Araneomorphae
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- Arkys cornutus 1.jpg
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- Koch, 1872
- taxonomic type
- Arkys
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Arkyidae, also known as triangular spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872 as a subfamily of Araneidae, and later elevated to a full family in 2017.
==Genera== , this family includes two genera and 38 species: Arkys Walckenaer, 1837 – Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea Demadiana Strand, 1929 – Australia
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