Malthonica

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]

Malthonica
Scientific classification
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

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. "Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  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.

"Malthonica" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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