Malthonica
| Malthonica | |
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| Malthonica ferruginea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Malthonica Simon, 1898 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 42 species | |
Malthonica (Mediterranean grass spiders) is a genus of Agelenidae which is very similar to Tegenaria, except for the shortened last pair of legs. In fact, M. silvestris has been renamed recently from T. silvestris. Other differences include the lack of "backdoor" exit in the funnels, although it is not a definite characteristic of the genus and has been found in other agelenids as well.
Two species (M. aliquoi and M. soriculata) were placed in the newly designated genus Aterigena in 2010 along with two species of Tegenaria.[1]
Species
- Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 (East Africa)
- Malthonica aliquoi (Brignoli, 1971) (Sicily)
- Malthonica anhela (Brignoli, 1972) (Turkey)
- Malthonica annulata (Kulczynski, 1913) (Montenegro)
- Malthonica argaeica (Nosek, 1905) (Bulgaria, Turkey)
- Malthonica arganoi (Brignoli, 1971) (Italy)
- Malthonica balearica Brignoli, 1978 (Balearic Is.)
- Malthonica campestris (C. L. Koch, 1834) (Europe to Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 (Crete)
- Malthonica dalmatica (Kulczyn'ski, 1906) (France to Israel)
- Malthonica eleonorae (Brignoli, 1974) (Sardinia)
- Malthonica epacris (Levy, 1996) (Israel)
- Malthonica ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) (Europe, Azores)
- Malthonica lehtineni Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005 (Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica lenkoranica Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005 (Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 (Portugal to France)
- Malthonica lyncea (Brignoli, 1978) (Turkey, Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica maronita (Simon, 1873) (Syria, Lebanon, Israel)
- Malthonica mediterranea (Levy, 1996) (Israel)
- Malthonica minoa (Brignoli, 1976) (Crete)
- Malthonica montana (Deltshev, 1993) (Bulgaria)
- Malthonica nakhchivanica Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005 (Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica nemorosa (Simon, 1916) (France, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey)
- Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 (Portugal)
- Malthonica pagana (C. L. Koch, 1840) (Europe to Central Asia, USA to Chile, New Zealand)
- Malthonica pagana urbana (Simon, 1875) (Europe)
- Malthonica paraschiae Brignoli, 1984 (Greece)
- Malthonica parvula (Thorell, 1875) (Italy)
- Malthonica pasquinii (Brignoli, 1978) (Turkey)
- Malthonica picta (Simon, 1870) (Europe, Russia, North Africa)
- Malthonica pseudolyncea Guseinov, Marusik & Koponen, 2005 (Azerbaijan)
- Malthonica rilaensis (Deltshev, 1993) (Bulgaria)
- Malthonica sardoa Brignoli, 1977 (Sardinia)
- Malthonica sbordonii (Brignoli, 1971) (Italy)
- Malthonica sicana Brignoli, 1976 (Sicily)
- Malthonica silvestris (L. Koch, 1872) (Europe, Russia)
- Malthonica soriculata (Simon, 1873) (Corsica, Sardinia)
- Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, 1990 (Greece)
- Malthonica tyrrhenica (Dalmas, 1922) (France, Italy)
- Malthonica vallei (Brignoli, 1972) (Libya)
- Malthonica vomeroi (Brignoli, 1977) (Italy)
References
- ↑ 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.
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