Kukulcania is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] It is named after Kukulkan, a Mesoamerican serpent deity.[3]

Kukulcania
Southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Kukulcania
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
K. hibernalis
(Hentz, 1842)
Species

15, see text

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains fifteen species found in the Americas, including the United States, Peru, and Chile:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Kukulcania Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ^ 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: 199–468.
  3. ^ "Genus Kukulcania". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-04.