{{short description|Genus of the spider M. fulva}} {{Speciesbox | name = | image = Megahexura.fulva.-.marshal.hedin.jpg | image_caption = ''Megahexura fulva'' in Sierra de Salinas | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Megahexura fulva | authority = (Chamberlin, 1919)<ref name=WSC_g1891 /> | image_upright = 1.1 | display_parents = 3 | grandparent_authority = Hedin & Bond, 2019<ref name=WSC_f130 /> | parent_authority = Kaston, 1972<ref name=WSC_g1891 /> }}
'''''Megahexura''''' is a genus of spiders with the sole species '''''Megahexura fulva''''', discovered in 1919.<ref name=WSC_g1891 /> {{as of|2026|1}}, it is the only genus in the family '''Megahexuridae'''.<ref name=WSC_f130 />
Native to the United States,<ref name=WSC_g1891 /> more specifically California,<ref name="bugg" /> the spiders build an exposed sheet web with a funnel-shaped retreat in holes and crevices along ravine banks.<ref name="hedin2019" />
==References== <references> <ref name="bugg">{{cite web | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/511958 | title=Genus Megahexura }}</ref> <ref name="hedin2019">{{cite journal | pmc=6501763 | date=2019 | last1=Hedin | first1=M. | last2=Derkarabetian | first2=S. | last3=Alfaro | first3=A. | last4=Ramírez | first4=M. J. | last5=Bond | first5=J. E. | title=Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci | journal=PeerJ | volume=7 | article-number=e6864 | doi=10.7717/peerj.6864 | doi-access=free | pmid=31110925 }}</ref> <ref name="WSC_f130">{{citation |title=Family Megahexuridae Hedin & Bond, 2019 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/130 |access-date=2020-07-15 }}</ref> <ref name="WSC_g1891">{{citation |title=Gen. ''Megahexura'' Kaston, 1972 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1891 |access-date=2020-07-15 }}</ref> </references>
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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