Pygmy Funnel-web Spiders

Microhexura is a genus of tiny North American curtain web spiders that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1925. As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in the United States: M. idahoana and M. montivaga. M. montivaga occurs in the higher peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. M. idahoana occurs farther west, in the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, and the northern Rocky...