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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Filistatidae |
Genus: | Misionella Ramírez & Grismado, 1997[1] |
Type species | |
M. mendensis (Mello-Leitão, 1920) | |
Species | |
5, see text |
Misionella is a genusofSouth American crevice weavers that was first described by M. J. Ramírez & C. J. Grismado in 1997.[2] In 2005 a spider fossil found in 15- to 20-million-year-old Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic was described as Misionella didicostae.[3] A second specimen was discussed soon thereafter.[4]
As of May 2019[update] it contains five species from Brazil and Argentina:[1]
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