Nanarchaea is a genus of Australian shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only two species, found in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland: N. binnaburra and N. bryophila.[1]

Nanarchaea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Malkaridae
Genus: Nanarchaea
Rix, 2006[1]
Type species
N. binnaburra
(Forster, 1955)
Species
  • N. binnaburra (Forster, 1955) – Australia (Queensland)
  • N. bryophila (Hickman, 1969) – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Nanarchaea Rix, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (2): 203–254. doi:10.1071/IS05032.