Molycria

For the town in ancient Greece, see Molycria (Greece).

Molycria is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.^[3]

Molycria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Molycria Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
M. mammosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)
Species
36, see text
Synonyms[1]
Honunius Simon, 1908[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains thirty-six species, found in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland:^[1]

• Molycria amphi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria broadwater Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Molycria bulburin Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria bundjalung Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Molycria burwelli Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria canonba Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Molycria cleveland Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria cooki Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria dalby Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Molycria daviesae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria dawson Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria drummond Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria goanna Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Molycria grayi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
• Molycria isla Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria kaputar Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Molycria mammosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (type) – Australia (New South Wales, Capital Territory)
• Molycria mcleani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria milledgei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Molycria moffatt Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria monteithi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria moranbah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria nipping Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria quadricauda (Simon, 1908) – Southern Australia
• Molycria raveni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria robert Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria smithae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Molycria stanisici Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria taroom Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria thompsoni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria tooloombah Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria upstart Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria vokes Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia)
• Molycria wallacei Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria wardeni Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Molycria wrightae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)

See also

• List of Gnaphosidae species

References

1. "Gen. Molycria Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 25. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
3. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.