Trachelas

Trachelas
T. tranquillus
T. minor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Trachelas
L. Koch, 1872
Type species
T. minor
Species

99, see text

Trachelas is a genus of araneomorph spiders which has variously been placed in families Trachelidae or Corinnidae. Current taxonomy places it in Trachelidae.

Though the name was first used in an identification key published by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866, it did not include a description for either genders. In 1872, O. Pickard-Cambridge described the type species, ascribing it to the same name given several years earlier. Koch revisited the genus and covered it more thoroughly shortly after the type species was described.

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 99 species.

These species have articles on Wikipedia:

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Trachelas L. Koch, 1872". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
  2. ↑ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 342. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
  3. ↑ Platnick, Norman I.; Shadab, Mohammad Umar (1974). A revision of the tranquillus and speciosus groups of the spider genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in North and Central America. American Museum novitates; no. 2553. American Museum of Natural History. hdl:2246/5449.
  4. ↑ Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. p. 2.
  5. ↑ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.
  6. ↑ Koch, L. (1872). "Apterologisches aus dem fränkischen Jura". Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg. 5: 146.