Chresiona
Sign in to saveChresiona is a genus of spiders in the family Amaurobiidae, known as hackled mesh-web weavers. All three species in the genus are endemic to South Africa.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 44
- Family
- Amaurobiidae
- Collections
- ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Amaurobiidae
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- taxon name
- Chresiona
- taxon rank
- genus
- endemic to
- South Africa
- taxonomic type
- Chresiona nigrosignata
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Chresiona is a genus of spiders in the family Amaurobiidae, known as hackled mesh-web weavers. All three species in the genus are endemic to South Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Chresiona was originally described by Eugène Simon in 1903. The genus was originally placed in the Agelenidae, but was transferred to the Amaurobiidae by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. More recently, it has been transferred to the Macrobunidae by Gorneau et al. (2023).
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