Quemedice

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Quemedice

| authority = Mello-Leitão, 1942

| type_species = Q. enigmaticus

| type_species_authority = Mello-Leitão, 1942

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| Q. enigmaticus|Mello-Leitão, 1942 – Brazil, Argentina

| Q. piracuruca|Rheims, Labarque & Ramírez, 2008 – Colombia, Brazil}}

}}

Quemedice is a genus of South American huntsman spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1942.{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1942| title=Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero| journal=Revista del Museo de La Plata| pages=381–426| volume=2| author-link=Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão}} {{as of|2019|09}} it contains two species, found in Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil: Q. enigmaticus and Q. piracuruca.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Quemedice Mello-Leitão, 1942| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-13| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3148| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}} Originally placed with the Philodromidae, it was moved to the Sparassidae in 2008.{{cite journal| last1=Rheims| first1=C. A.| last2=Labarque| first2=F. M.| last3=Ramírez| first3=M. J.| year=2008| title=The South American genus Quemedice Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Sparassidae): familial placement and taxonomic revision| journal=Zootaxa| volume=1813| page=61| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1809.1.4}}