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Family Microhexuridae

Microhexura idahoana - female Microhexura idahoana - female Microhexura idahoana - female Microhexura montivaga Microhexura montivaga Microhexura montivaga Microhexura montivaga Microhexura montivaga
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Mygalomorphs)
Family Microhexuridae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
One genus (Microhexura) formerly placed in Dipluridae.
Explanation of Names
Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020(1)
Numbers
2 species in one genus, both in our range.

* = type species
Range
Microhexura

Microhexura idahoana: Cascade Mountains, Blue Mountains, and northern Rocky Mountains of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.(2)

Microhexura montivaga: higher mountain peaks of the southern Blue Ridge Province in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.(2)
Habitat
Ground-based webs under objects or in soft organic substrates.
Remarks
Microhexura montivaga, the "Spruce-fir moss spider," is an endangered/protected species and is also one of the world's smallest mygalomorphs!

Info. on this page mostly added by other contributors but transferred to this page from node Euagridae (formerly a Dipluridae node) by me, Laura P. Additional contributors: Jeff Hollenbeck, Graham M, mhedin, and Mandy Howe.
See Also
Print References
Coyle, Frederick A., 1981. The mygalomorph spider genus Microhexura (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 170: 64-75. (download available here)

Coyle, Frederick A., 1988. A revision of the American funnel-web mygalomorph spider genus Euagrus (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 187: 203-292. (download available here)

Ubick et al., 2005. Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society, Keene (New Hampshire). 377 pages.
Works Cited
1. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data
Opatova, V., Hamilton, C. A., Hedin, M., Montes de Oca, L., Král, J. & Bond, J. E. 2020. Systematic Biology 69(4): 671-707.
2.The mygalomorph spider genus Microhexura (Araneae, Dipluridae)
Frederick A. Coyle. 1981. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 170: 64-75.