Austrohahnia

Austrohahnia is a genus of South American dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species, all found in Argentina: A. catleyi, A. melloleitaoi, and A. praestans.[1]

Austrohahnia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Austrohahnia
Mello-Leitão, 1942[1]
Type species
A. praestans
Mello-Leitão, 1942
Species
  • A. catleyi Rubio, Lo-Man-Hung & Iuri, 2014 – Argentina
  • A. melloleitaoi (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942) – Argentina
  • A. praestans Mello-Leitão, 1942 – Argentina

References
  1. "Gen. Austrohahnia Mello-Leitão, 1942". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1942). "Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero". Revista del Museo de La Plata. 2 (N.S., Zool.): 381–426.


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