{{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''<ref name=wsc /> | type_species_authority = Crosby & Bishop, 1925 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist |M. idahoana|Chamberlin & 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) }}
'''''Microhexura''''' is a genus of tiny North American spiders 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: ''M. idahoana'' and ''M. montivaga''.<ref name=wsc />
''M. montivaga'' occurs in the higher peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. ''M. idahoana'' occurs further west, in the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, and the northern Rocky Mountains.<ref name=bugguide />
''M. montivaga'' is considered endangered. ''M. idahoana'' is widespread in old growth from Mount Rainier southward.<ref name="fix1" />
==Species== {{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes two species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Microhexura idahoana'' <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1945</small> – Canada, United States * ''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
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Category:Mygalomorphae Category:Mygalomorphae genera
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