{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Wesmaldra | authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''W. bidgemia'' | type_species_authority = Platnick & Baehr, 2006 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 14, see text }}
'''''Wesmaldra''''' is a genus of Australian ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & Barbara Baehr in 2006.<ref name=Plat2006 /> Originally placed with the long-spinneret ground spiders, it was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018.<ref name=Azev2018 />
==Species== {{as of|2019|06}} it contains fourteen species, found only in the Northern Territory and Western Australia:<ref name=wsc /> *''Wesmaldra baynesi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra bidgemia'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> (type) – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra bromilowi'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra hirsti'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra kakadu'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Northern Territory) *''Wesmaldra learmonth'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra napier'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra nixaut'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra rolfei'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra splendida'' <small>(Simon, 1908)</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra talgomine'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra urawa'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra waldockae'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia) *''Wesmaldra wiluna'' <small>Platnick & Baehr, 2006</small> – Australia (Western Australia)
==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wesmaldra Platnick & Baehr, 2006| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2465| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> <ref name="Azev2018">{{cite journal| last1=Azevedo| first1=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| pmid=34706482| doi-access=free}}</ref> <ref name="Plat2006">{{cite journal| last1=Platnick| first1=N. I.| last2=Baehr| first2=B.| year=2006| title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| pages=1–287| volume=298| author-link1=Norman I. Platnick| author-link2=Barbara Baehr| doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2| hdl=2246/5788}}</ref> </references>
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick
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