Keilira

This article is about spiders. For the locality, see Keilira, South Australia.

Keilira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus:
Hirst, 1989[1]
Type species
K. sparsomaculata
Hirst, 1989
Species

Keilira is a genus of Australian huntsman spiders that was first described by David B. Hirst in 1989.[2] As of September 2019, it contains two species that are found in South Australia and Victoria: K. sokoli and K. sparsomaculata.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Keilira Hirst, 1989". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ Hirst, D. B. (1989). "A new genus of huntsman spider (Heteropodidae: Araneae) from south eastern Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 113: 7–13.


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