Biology:Savignia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Savignia
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Savignia frontata (Bl.) figure 232
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Savignia
Blackwall, 1833[1]
Type species
S. frontata
Blackwall, 1833
Species

23, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cephalethus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947[2]
  • Delorrhipis Simon, 1884[3]

Savignia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. The name honors the France naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny.[4]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains twenty-three species, found in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the United States , on Comoros, in Western Australia, and Alaska:[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Savignia Blackwall, 1833. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1597. Retrieved 2019-06-23. 
  2. Tanasevitch, A. V. (1985). "A study of spiders (Aranei) of the polar Urals". Trudy Zoologieskogo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR 139: 56. 
  3. Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Zur Taxonomie europäischer Gattungen der Zwergspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie 4 (1994): 648. 
  4. Blackwall, J. (1833). "Characters of some undescribed genera and species of Araneidae". London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 3 (3): 436–443. 

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