# Microhexura

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Pygmy Funnel-web Spiders
| image = Microhexura montivaga - Catherine Tamlyn - 428256135.jpeg
| image_caption = Spruce-fir moss spider (''M. montivaga'')
| image2 = Spruce_Fir_Moss_Spider.jpg
| image2_caption = ''M. montivaga''
| taxon = Microhexura
| authority = Crosby & Bishop, 1925<ref name=wsc />
| type_species = ''[M. montivaga](/source/Microhexura_montivaga)''<ref name=wsc />
| type_species_authority = Crosby & Bishop, 1925
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
    |M. idahoana|[Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin) & [Ivie](/source/Wilton_Ivie), 1945
    |M. montivaga|Crosby & Bishop, 1925
  }}
| display_parents = 2
| range_map = Microhexuridae range map.svg
| range_map_caption = <span style="color:blue">blue</span>: reported countries ([WSC](/source/World_Spider_Catalog))
}}

'''''Microhexura''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of tiny [North America](/source/North_America)n [spider](/source/spider)s that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1925.<ref name=wsc /><ref name=Cros1925 /> It is the only genus in the family '''Microhexuridae''',<ref name=WSC_f134 /> with two described species, both found in the [United States](/source/United_States): ''[M. idahoana](/source/Microhexura_idahoana)'' and ''[M. montivaga](/source/Microhexura_montivaga)''.<ref name=wsc />

''M. montivaga'' occurs in the higher peaks of the [Blue Ridge Mountains](/source/Blue_Ridge_Mountains) of [North Carolina](/source/North_Carolina) and [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee). ''M. idahoana'' occurs further west, in the [Cascades](/source/Cascade_Range), the [Blue Mountains](/source/Blue_Mountains_(Pacific_Northwest)), and the northern [Rocky Mountains](/source/Rocky_Mountains).<ref name=bugguide />

''M. montivaga'' is considered [endangered](/source/endangered_species). ''M. idahoana'' is widespread in old growth from [Mount Rainier](/source/Mount_Rainier) southward.<ref name="fix1" />

==Species==
{{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes two species:<ref name="wsc" />
{{Div col}}
* ''[Microhexura idahoana](/source/Microhexura_idahoana)'' <small>[Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin) & [Ivie](/source/Wilton_Ivie), 1945</small> – [Canada](/source/Canada), [United States](/source/United_States)
* ''[Microhexura montivaga](/source/Microhexura_montivaga)'' <small>Crosby & Bishop, 1925</small> – United States
{{Div col end}}

==References==
<references>
  <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/814 | title=Gen. Crosby & Bishop, 1925 | publisher=World Spider Catalog  | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2026-01-17}}</ref>
  <ref name="bugguide">{{cite web| title=Genus Microhexura| publisher=BugGuide| accessdate=2019-06-01| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1329937}}</ref>
  <ref name="Cros1925">{{cite journal| last1=Crosby| first1=C. R.| last2=Bishop| first2=S. C.| year=1925| title=Two new spiders from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.| journal=Entomological News| pages=142–146| volume=36}}</ref>
  <ref name="fix1">{{cite web| title=Spider Collector's Journal (16th page: 2006)| first=Rod| last=Crawford| year=2006| accessdate=2019-06-01| publisher=Scarabs: The Bug Society| url=http://crawford.tardigrade.net/journal/Journal16.html}}</ref>
  <ref name="WSC_f134">{{citation |mode=cs1 |title=Family: Microhexuridae Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/134 |accessdate=2020-07-15 }}</ref>
</references>

==External links==
* {{inaturalist taxon}}
*[https://bugguide.net/node/view/1329937 Microhexura] at [BugGuide](/source/BugGuide)

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Category:Mygalomorphae
Category:Mygalomorphae genera

{{Microhexuridae-stub}}

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