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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: | Trechaleidae |
| Genus: | Trechalea Thorell, 1869 |
Trechalea is a genus of spiders in the family Trechaleidae. The species of this genus are found in the New World from the United States south to Peru and Brazil.
Taxonomy
The genus was first erected by Carl L. Koch in 1848, and given the name Triclaria. However, this name was already in use for a genus of parrots, and in 1869, Tord T.T. Thorell proposed the replacement name Trechalea. The name is derived from the Greek τρηχαλέος, meaning "rough" or "savage".
Species
As of March 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:
- Trechalea amazonica F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Trinidad, Colombia, Brazil
- Trechalea bucculenta (Simon, 1898) – Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia
- Trechalea connexa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) – Mexico
- Trechalea extensa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
- Trechalea gertschi Carico & Minch, 1981 – USA, Mexico
- Trechalea longitarsis (C. L. Koch, 1847) (type species) – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Trechalea macconnelli Pocock, 1900 – Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname
- Trechalea paucispina Caporiacco, 1947 – Peru, Brazil, Guyana
- Trechalea tirimbina Silva & Lapinski, 2012 – Costa Rica
References
- ^ "Gen. Trechalea Thorell, 1869", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-27
- Thorell, T.T.T. (1869), "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature", Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series 3, 7: 1–108, retrieved 2016-03-27, p. 37
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