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Plesiolena

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Plesiolena is a small genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It was first described by Pablo A. Goloboff and Norman I. Platnick in 1987, and it has only been found in Chile. The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena. it contains only 2 species: P. bonneti and P. jorgelina.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyActinopodidae
Observations recorded13

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Actinopodidae
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taxon name
Plesiolena
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Plesiolena
taxonomic type
Plesiolena bonneti
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Plesiolena is a small genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae. It was first described by Pablo A. Goloboff and Norman I. Platnick in 1987, and it has only been found in Chile. The name is a combination of "plesiomorphy" and the genus Missulena. it contains only 2 species: P. bonneti and P. jorgelina.

==References==

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