Ixchela Taxonomy
The genus was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000 with the type species being Ixchela furcula
Species
As of November 2021 [ update]
Ixchela abernathyi (Gertsch , 1971) – MexicoIxchela azteca Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Aztec people .Ixchela franckei Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – MexicoIxchela furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) (type ) – Guatemala, Honduras, El SalvadorIxchela grix Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – MexicoIxchela huasteca Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after La Huasteca , where this species is found.Ixchela huberi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – MexicoIxchela jalisco Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the state of Jalisco , where this species is found.Ixchela juarezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after Benito Juárez .Ixchela mendozai Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – MexicoIxchela mixe Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Mixe people .Ixchela panchovillai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Pancho Villa .Ixchela pecki (Gertsch, 1971) – MexicoIxchela placida (Gertsch, 1971) – MexicoIxchela purepecha Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Purépecha people.Ixchela santibanezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – MexicoIxchela simoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1898) – MexicoIxchela taxco Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – MexicoIxchela tlayuda Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the tlayuda dish, typical of Oaxaca , where this species is found.Ixchela tzotzil Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Tzotzil people.Ixchela viquezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – HondurasIxchela zapatai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Emiliano Zapata .References
1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Ixchela Huber, 2000" . World Spider Catalog Version 22.5 . Natural History Museum Bern. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-11-06 . ↑ Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level" . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 254 : 1– 348. doi :10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254< 0001:NWPSAP> 2.0.CO; 2 . hdl :2246/1601 S2CID 83685875 . 1 2 3 Valdez-Mondragón, A.; Francke, O. F. (2015). "Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 175 (1): 20– 58. doi :10.1111/zoj.12265 1 2 3 4 Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with description of ten new species from Mexico and Central America" . Zootaxa . 3608 (5): 285– 327. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.3608.5.1 . PMID 24614473 . Retrieved 6 November 2021 – via ResearchGate. 1 2 Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2020). "COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico". Zootaxa . 4747 (1): 54– 76. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2 . PMID 32230118 . S2CID 214748642 .
