Asagena
Appearance
Asagena | |
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Asagena phalerata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Theridiidae |
Genus: | Asagena Sundevall, 1833[1] |
Type species | |
A. phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
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Species | |
9, see text |
Asagena is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2020[update] it contains nine species, found in North America, Europe, Asia, and Algeria:[1]
- Asagena americana Emerton, 1882 – Canada, USA, Mexico, China
- Asagena brignolii (Knoflach, 1996) – Greece
- Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena italica (Knoflach, 1996) – France (incl. Corsica), Switzerland, Italy, Algeria
- Asagena medialis (Banks, 1898) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena meridionalis Kulczyński, 1894 – Central to south-eastern and eastern Europe, Georgia
- Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea
- Asagena pulcher (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
- Asagena semideserta (Ponomarev, 2005) – Kazakhstan, Mongolia
In synonymy:
- A. amurica Strand, 1907 = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. nesiotes = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. parvula = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. venusta = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Asagena Sundevall, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
- ^ Sundevall, C. J. (1833). Conspectus Arachnidum. Londini Gothorum, pp. pp. 1–39.