Biology:Argenna

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Argenna
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Argenna obesa 1.jpg
Argenna obesa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Argenna
Thorell, 1870[1]
Type species
A. subnigra
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861)
Species

7, see text

Argenna is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains seven species:[1]

  • Argenna alxa Tang, 2011 – China
  • Argenna obesa Emerton, 1911 – USA, Canada
  • Argenna patula (Simon, 1874) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kyrgyzstan, China, Iran?
  • Argenna polita (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
  • Argenna sibirica Esyunin & Stepina, 2014 – Russia (West Siberia)
  • Argenna subnigra (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861) (type) – Europe, Azerbaijan, China
  • Argenna yakima Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 – USA

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Argenna Thorell, 1870". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/753. Retrieved 2019-06-01. 
  2. Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders.". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 7 (3): 109–242. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2860919 entry