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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.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAmaurobiidae

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Specimen records
44
Family
Amaurobiidae
Collections
ARC-PPRI
Recorded in
South Africa

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Amaurobiidae
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taxon name
Chresiona
taxon rank
genus
endemic to
South Africa
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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chresiona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.