Oltacloea is a genus of South American ground spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Argentina and Brazil: O. beltraoae, O. mutilata, and O. ribaslangei.[1] Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.[3]

Oltacloea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidomidae
Genus: Oltacloea
Mello-Leitão, 1940[1]
Type species
O. mutilata
Mello-Leitão, 1940
Species

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Oltacloea Mello-Leitão, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940). "Tres géneros extraños de arañas argentinas". Notas del Museo de la Plata. 5: 251–258.
  3. ^ Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi:10.1111/cla.12226.