Westrarchaea

Westrarchaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Malkaridae
Genus:	Westrarchaea; Rix, 2006
Type species
	W. sinuosa; Rix, 2006
Species
	W. pusilla Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) ; W. sinuosa Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia) ; W. spinosa Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia);

Westrarchaea is a genus of Western Australian shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006.^[2] As of June 2019^[update] it contains only three species, found only in Western Australia: W. pusilla, W. sinuosa, and W. spinosa.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Westrarchaea Rix, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
^ Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (2): 203–254. doi:10.1071/IS05032.

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