Austrochilus is a genus of South American cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Austrochilidae, first described by H. Zapfe in 1955.[2]

Austrochilus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Austrochilidae
Genus: Austrochilus
Gertsch & Zapfe, 1955[1]
Type species
A. manni
Gertsch & Zapfe, 1955
Species

7, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains seven species in Chile and Argentina:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Austrochilus Gertsch & Zapfe, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  2. ^ Zapfe, H. (1955). "Filogenia y función en Austrochilus manni Gertsch y Zapfe (Araneae-Hypochilidae)". Trabajos del Laboratorio de Zoologia de la Universidad de Chile. 2: 1–53.