Kukulcania
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| Kukulcania | |
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| Southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Filistatidae |
| Genus: | Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967 |
| Species | |
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Kukulcania is a genus of spiders that is found in the Americas, for example in the USA, Peru and Chile.
[edit] Name
The genus is named after the fierce Meso-American god Kukulcan.
[edit] Species
- Kukulcania arizonica (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) (USA)
- Kukulcania brevipes (Keyserling, 1883) (Peru)
- Kukulcania geophila (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) (USA)
- Kukulcania geophila wawona (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) (USA)
- Kukulcania hibernalis (Hentz, 1842) (New World)
- Kukulcania hurca (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) (USA)
- Kukulcania isolinae (Alayón, 1972) (Cuba)
- Kukulcania tractans (O. P-Cambridge, 1896) (Mexico)
- Kukulcania utahana (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935) (USA)
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