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Artifex is a small genus of orb-weaver spiders native to tropical regions of mainland Australia and to New Caledonia. The genus was erected by R. J. Kallal and Gustavo Hormiga in 2018 to contain two species moved from different genera that have several synapomorphies, including an abdomen that extends past the spinnerets, widely separated spermathecae, and dorsal markings similar to those of Zygiellinae. The name is a combination of the Latin "ars", meaning "art", and "-fex", meaning "maker" in reference to the shelters they build out of leaves.
As of April 2022 it contains only two species: A. joannae and A. melanopyga.




See also


Phonognatha
List of Araneidae species: A




References






Further reading


Kuntner, M.; Coddington, J. A.; Schneider, J. M. (2009). "Intersexual arms race? Genital coevolution in nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae)". Evolution. 63: 1451–1463. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.x.
Kuntner, M.; Coddington, J. A.; Hormiga, G. (2008). "Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies". Cladistics. 24 (2): 147–217. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x.
Berland, L. (1924), "Araignées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty", in Sarasin, F.; Roux, J. (eds.), Nova Caledonia, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6790
Rainbow, W. J. (1916). "Arachnida from northern Queensland". Records of the Australian Museum. 11: 33–64, 79–119, pl.
Bradley, H. B. (1876). "The araneids of the Chevert Expedition. Part I". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 1: 137–150.

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