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Lauricius

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Lauricius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zoropsidae
Genus: Lauricius
Simon, 1888[1]
Type species
L. hemicloeinus
Simon, 1888
Species

Lauricius is a genus of North American false wolf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1888.[2] As of September 2019 it contains two species, found in the United States and Mexico: L. hemicloeinus and L. hooki.[1] Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was transferred to the Zoropsidae in 1967.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Lauricius Simon, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1888). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 203–216.
  3. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 243.
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