Mecysmaucheniidae

• Mecysmauchenius Simon, 1884
• Zearchaea Wilton, 1946

The family of Mecysmaucheniidae belong to 25 species. They were described in 1986 by Jörg Wunderlich as a subfamily of Archaeidae. So far, they have been detected only in Chile, Argentina and the Falkland Islands and the Juan Fernández Islands. Only the single Aotearoa, A. magna (Forster, 1949) and both Zearchaea species Z. clypeata ( Wilton, 1946) and Z. fiordensis (Forster, 1955 ), however, only in New Zealand.

Species

The categorization into subfamilies is based on Joel Hallan 's Biology Catalog.

• Mecysmauchenioides Quetrihue Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 ( Argentina)

• Mecysmauchenius fernandez Forster & Platnick, 1984 ( Juan Fernández Islands )
• Mecysmauchenius gertschi Zapfe, 1960 (Chile, Argentina)
• Mecysmauchenius platnicki Grismado & Ramírez, 2005 ( Chile)
• Mecysmauchenius segmentatus Simon, 1884 (Chile, Argentina, Falkland Islands)

• Zearchaea Wilton, 1946 Zearchaea clypeata Wilton, 1946 (New Zealand)

Swell

• Norman I. Platnick, 2005. The World Spider Catalog, version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History.
• Grismado, CJ & MJ Ramírez. , 2005. Especies Nuevas de la familia Mecysmaucheniidae (Araneae ) de Chile y Argentina. Biota Neotropica 5: 1-4 PDF ( Spanish first description of Mecysmauchenius platnicki and Mecysmauchenioides Quetrihue )

• True spiders
• Araneomorphae