Megahexura

{{short description|Genus of the spider M. fulva}}

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| image = Megahexura.fulva.-.marshal.hedin.jpg

| image_caption = Megahexura fulva in Sierra de Salinas

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| taxon = Megahexura fulva

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| grandparent_authority = Hedin & Bond, 2019

| parent_authority= Kaston, 1972

| authority = (Chamberlin, 1919)

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Megahexura is a genus of spiders with the sole species Megahexura fulva, discovered in 1919. It is the only genus in the family Megahexuridae. Native to the United States, more specifically California,{{cite web | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/511958 | title=Genus Megahexura }} the spiders build an exposed sheet web with a funnel-shaped retreat in holes and crevices along ravine banks.{{cite journal | pmc=6501763 | date=2019 | last1=Hedin | first1=M. | last2=Derkarabetian | first2=S. | last3=Alfaro | first3=A. | last4=Ramírez | first4=M. J. | last5=Bond | first5=J. E. | title=Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci | journal=PeerJ | volume=7 | pages=e6864 | doi=10.7717/peerj.6864 | doi-access=free | pmid=31110925 }}