| Ixchela | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Ixchela Huber, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| I. furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) | |
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Ixchela is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2000.
Species
As of November 2021 it contains twenty-two species, found in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico:
- Ixchela abernathyi (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
- Ixchela azteca Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Aztec people.
- Ixchela franckei Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
- Ixchela furcula (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) (type) – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador
- Ixchela grix Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
- Ixchela huasteca Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after La Huasteca, where this species is found.
- Ixchela huberi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
- Ixchela jalisco Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the state of Jalisco, where this species is found.
- Ixchela juarezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after Benito Juárez.
- Ixchela mendozai Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico
- Ixchela mixe Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Mixe people.
- Ixchela panchovillai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Pancho Villa.
- Ixchela pecki (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
- Ixchela placida (Gertsch, 1971) – Mexico
- Ixchela purepecha Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the Purépecha people.
- Ixchela santibanezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
- Ixchela simoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
- Ixchela taxco Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico
- Ixchela tlayuda Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2015 – Mexico. Named after the tlayuda dish, typical of Oaxaca, where this species is found.
- Ixchela tzotzil Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Mexico. Named after the Tzotzil people.
- Ixchela viquezi Valdez-Mondragón, 2013 – Honduras
- Ixchela zapatai Valdez-Mondragón, 2020 – Mexico. Named after Emiliano Zapata.
See also
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2021). "Gen. Ixchela Huber, 2000". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
- Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 1–348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1601. S2CID 83685875.
- ^ Valdez-Mondragón, A.; Francke, O. F. (2015). "Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 20–58. doi:10.1111/zoj.12265.
- ^ Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with description of ten new species from Mexico and Central America". Zootaxa. 3608 (5): 285–327. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3608.5.1. PMID 24614473. Retrieved 6 November 2021 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2020). "COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico". Zootaxa. 4747 (1): 54–76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2. PMID 32230118. S2CID 214748642.
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