Laestrygones | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Toxopidae |
Genus: |
Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 [1] |
Type species | |
L. albiceris Urquhart, 1894
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Species | |
6, see text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Laestrygones is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by A. T. Urquhart in 1894. [2]
As of May 2019 [update] it contains six species from New Zealand and Tasmania: [1]