Utivarachna is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae first described by Kyukichi Kishida in 1940.[2] It was largely ignored until Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold revised the sac and ground spiders in 2001, transferring some species from Trachelas and adding several new ones.[3] The genus was further expanded in 2014 and 2015.[4][5]

Utivarachna
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Utivarachna
Kishida, 1940[1]
Type species
U. fukasawana
Kishida, 1940
Species

17, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains seventeen species in southeast Asia:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Utivarachna Kishida, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. ^ Kishida, K. (1940). "Notes on two species of spiders, Doosia japonica and Utivarachna fukasawana". Acta Arachnologica. 5 (2): 138–145. doi:10.2476/asjaa.5.138.
  3. ^ Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]).
  4. ^ Zhao, Y.; Peng, X. J. (2014). "Spiders of the genus Utivarachna from China (Araneae: Corinnidae)". Zootaxa. 3774 (6): 578–588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.6. PMID 24871523.
  5. ^ Jin, C.; Yin, X. C.; Zhang, F. (2015). "A new species of the genus Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 (Araneae: Trachelidae) from China, with the first description of the male of U. fabaria Zhao & Peng, 2014 and a redescription of U. gui (Zhu, Song & Kim, 1998)". Zootaxa. 4057 (4): 569–581. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.6. PMID 26701499.