Trachelas

Phylum:Arthropoda

Subphylum:Chelicerata

Class:Arachnida

Order:Araneae

Trachelas
T. tranquillus
T. minor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Trachelidae
Genus:	Trachelas L. Koch, 1872[1]
Type species
T. minor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
Species
99, see text

Trachelas is a genus of araneomorph spiders which has variously been placed in families Trachelidae or Corinnidae. Current taxonomy places it in Trachelidae.^[2][3]

Though the name was first used in an identification key published by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866,^[4] it did not include a description for either genders. In 1872, O. Pickard-Cambridge described the type species, ascribing it to the same name given several years earlier.^[5] Koch revisited the genus and covered it more thoroughly shortly after the type species was described.^[6]