Wydundra

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Wydundra

| authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006

| type_species = W. osbourne

| type_species_authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 46, see text

}}

Wydundra is a genus of 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| url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/2246/5788/1/B298a01.pdf}} 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 forty-six species, found only in Australia and Malaysia:{{cite web| title=Gen. Wydundra 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/2466| doi=10.24436/2}}

See also

References

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Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Gnaphosidae

Category:Spiders of Australia

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