Hexura

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hexura picea.jpg

| image_caption = H. picea

| taxon = Hexura

| authority = Simon, 1884

| type_species = H. picea

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1884

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| H. picea|Simon, 1884 – USA

| H. rothi|Gertsch & Platnick, 1979 – USA}}

}}

Hexura is a genus of American folding trapdoor spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1884| title=Note sur le groupe des Mecicobothria| journal=Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France| pages=313–317| volume=9| author-link=Eugène_Simon}} {{as of|2019|09}} it contains two species, found in the United States: H. picea and H. rothi.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Hexura Simon, 1884| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-10-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1888| doi=10.24436/2}} Originally placed with Mecicobothriidae, it was moved to Antrodiaetidae in 2019.{{cite journal| last=Hedin| first=M.| display-authors=etal| year=2019| title=Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci| journal=PeerJ| volume=7| issue=e6864| page=15| doi=10.7717/peerj.6864| pmid=31110925| pmc=6501763| doi-access=free}}