Harmonicon (spider)

Harmonicon is a genus of South American curtain web spiders that was first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1896.[2]

Harmonicon
H. cerberus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Dipluridae
Genus: Harmonicon
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896[1]
Type species
H. rufescens
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
Species

4, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Harmonicon audeae Maréchal & Marty, 1998 – French Guiana
  • Harmonicon cerberus Pedroso & Baptista, 2014 – Brazil
  • Harmonicon oiapoqueae Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2011 – French Guiana
  • Harmonicon rufescens F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (type) – Brazil

References

  1. "Gen. Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1896). "On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 64 (3): 716–766. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb03076.x. hdl:2027/coo.31924018549828.


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