Hexablemma is a monotypic genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Tetrablemmidae containing the single species, Hexablemma cataphractum. It was first described by Lucien Berland in 1920 from a female found in Kenya.[2] It was separated from Tetrablemma in 1978 for this single species,[3] because it doesn't belong there, but doesn't seem to belong anywhere else either.[1][4]

Hexablemma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetrablemmidae
Genus: Hexablemma
Berland, 1920[1]
Species:
H. cataphractum
Binomial name
Hexablemma cataphractum
Berland, 1920

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Hexablemma Berland, 1920". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  2. ^ Berland, L. (1920). "Note sur une araignée de Madagascar (Nemoscolus waterloti nov. sp.) et sur son industrie". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1920: 384–387. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.1205.
  3. ^ Shear, W. A. (1978). "Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae". American Museum Novitates (2650): 12.
  4. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1981). "Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. III. Tetrablemmidae, with a world revision". Acta Zoologica Fennica. 162: 72.