| Kukulcania | |
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| Southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Filistatidae |
| Genus: | Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| K. hibernalis (Hentz, 1842)
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| Species | |
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15, see text | |
Kukulcania is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] It is named after Kukulkan, a Mesoamerican serpent deity.[3]
Species[edit]
As of May 2019[update] it contains fifteen species found in the Americas, including the United States, Peru, and Chile:[1]
- Kukulcania arizonica (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
- Kukulcania bajacali Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania benita Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico (San Benito Is., Baja California)
- Kukulcania brignolii (Alayón, 1981) – Mexico
- Kukulcania chingona Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania cochimi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania geophila (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
- Kukulcania gertschi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania hibernalis (Hentz, 1842) (type) – USA, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America
- Kukulcania hurca (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) – USA, Mexico
- Kukulcania mexicana Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania santosi Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Probably introduced in Peru, Chile
- Kukulcania tequila Magalhaes & Ramírez, 2019 – Mexico
- Kukulcania tractans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico
- Kukulcania utahana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) – USA, Mexico
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
- ^ "Genus Kukulcania". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.