Elaver madera

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| genus = Elaver

| species = madera

| authority = (Roddy, 1966)

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Elaver madera is a species of spider in the spider family Clubionidae.Encyclopedia of Life: Species recognized by Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), http://eol.org/pages/1203544/overview, accessed 11 Jan 2018.Regiane Saturnino and Alexandre Bragio Bonaldo. 2015. Taxonomic review of the New World spider genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa, Vol. 4045, No. 1, 23 Nov. 2015, https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4045.1.1; DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4045.1.1. It was first named Clubionoides madera when circumscribed in 1966.{{Cite journal |last=Roddy |first=Leon R. |date=1966 |title=New Species, Records, of Clubionid Spiders |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3224319 |journal=Transactions of the American Microscopical Society |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=399–407 |doi=10.2307/3224319 |issn=0003-0023}} It is closely allied to Elaver texana and its related species, which are mostly found in the American tropics.

It is a relatively large clubionid species, about 1/2 inch (13.90 mm) in length overall. Its carapace and appendages are pale yellowish brown, and its abdomen is gray covered with fine hairs.

The female holotype and paratype were collected at Madera Canyon, Arizona in June, 1952.