Ixchela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Ixchela
Huber, 2000[1]
Type species
I. furcula
Species

22, see text

Ixchela is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000.[2]

Species

As of November 2021 it contains twenty-two species, found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico:[1]

  • Ixchela abernathyi (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela azteca Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Aztec people.[3]
  • Ixchela franckei Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) (type) – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
  • Ixchela grix Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela huasteca Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after La Huasteca, where this species is found.[4]
  • Ixchela huberi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela jalisco Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the state of Jalisco, where this species is found.[3]
  • Ixchela juarezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after Benito Juárez.[4]
  • Ixchela mendozai Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico
  • Ixchela mixe Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Mixe people.[4]
  • Ixchela panchovillai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Pancho Villa.[5]
  • Ixchela pecki (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela placida (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
  • Ixchela purepecha Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Purépecha people.[3]
  • Ixchela santibanezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela simoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
  • Ixchela taxco Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
  • Ixchela 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.[4]
  • Ixchela viquezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Honduras
  • Ixchela zapatai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Emiliano Zapata.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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. Retrieved 6 November 2021 – via ResearchGate.
  5. 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.


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