Biology:Malthonica

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Malthonica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Malthonica
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
M. lusitanica
Simon, 1898
Species

7, see text

Malthonica is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.[2] Many of its species were transferred to Aterigena and Tegenaria in 2010.[3]

Species

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

  • Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa
  • Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 – Greece (Crete)
  • Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 – Portugal to France
  • Malthonica minoa (Brignoli, 1976) – Greece (Crete)
  • Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal
  • Malthonica paraschiae Brignoli, 1984 – Greece
  • Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, 1990 – Greece

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/40. 
  2. Simon, E. (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 
  3. Bolzern, Angelo; Hänggi, Ambros; Burckhardt, Daniel (2010). "Aterigena, a new genus of funnel-web spider, shedding some light on the Tegenaria-Malthonica problem (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Journal of Arachnology 38 (2): 162–182. doi:10.1636/A09-78.1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229209. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2714500 entry