Hemicloea

Hemicloea is a genus of South Pacific flat spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Trochanteriidae in 2018.[3]

Hemicloea
Hemicloea rogenhoferi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trochanteriidae
Genus:	Hemicloea Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
H. sundevalli Thorell, 1870
Species
13, see text

Species

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

• Hemicloea affinis L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Hemicloea crocotila Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Hemicloea limbata L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Hemicloea michaelseni Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Hemicloea murina L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (Queensland)
• Hemicloea pacifica Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia (Loyalty Is.)
• Hemicloea plumea L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
• Hemicloea rogenhoferi L. Koch, 1875 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Zealand
• Hemicloea semiplumosa Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Hemicloea sublimbata Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Hemicloea sundevalli Thorell, 1870 (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Zealand
• Hemicloea tasmani Dalmas, 1917 – Australia (Tasmania)
• Hemicloea tenera L. Koch, 1876 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

References

1. "Gen. Hemicloea Thorell, 1870". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
2. Thorell, T. (1870). "Araneae nonnullae Novae Hollandie, descriptae". Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 27: 367–389.
3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 612. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.