Wesmaldra
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Wesmaldra
| authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006
| type_species = W. bidgemia
| type_species_authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 14, see text
}}
Wesmaldra is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006.{{cite journal| last=Platnick| first=N. I.| last2=Baehr| first2=B.| year=2006| title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| pages=1–287| volume=298| author-link=Norman_I._Platnick| author-link2=Barbara_Baehr| doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2| hdl=2246/5788}} Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.{{cite journal| last=Azevedo| first=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| doi-access=free}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains fourteen species, found only in the Northern Territory and Western Australia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wesmaldra Platnick & Baehr, 2006| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2465| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Wesmaldra baynesi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra bidgemia Platnick & Baehr, 2006 (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra bromilowi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra hirsti Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra kakadu Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Northern Territory)
- Wesmaldra learmonth Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra napier Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra nixaut Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra rolfei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra splendida (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra talgomine Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra urawa Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra waldockae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Wesmaldra wiluna Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
See also
References
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