Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984. 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011, 2012, and 2024.
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Austrarchaea is a genus of Australian assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984. 25 species were described by Michael Gordon Rix and Mark Stephen Harvey in 2011, 2012, and 2024.
==Species== it contains thirty species: Austrarchaea alani Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea aleenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea andersoni Rix, 2024 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea binfordae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea christopheri Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea clyneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) Austrarchaea cunninghami Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea davidi Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea dianneae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea griswoldi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea harmsi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea helenae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea hoskini Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea judyae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea karenae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea laidlawae Rix, 2022 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea mascordi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea mcguiganae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea milledgei Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea monteithi Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea nodosa (Forster, 1956) (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) Austrarchaea platnickorum Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea raveni Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea smithae Rix & Harvey, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales) Austrarchaea tealei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea thompsoni Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea wallacei Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea westi Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland) Austrarchaea woodae Rix & Harvey, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
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