Biology:Palaestina (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Palaestina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Palaestina
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1]
Type species
P. expolita
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

Palaestina is a genus of ant spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only three species:[1]

  • Palaestina dentifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872
  • Palaestina eremica Levy, 1992 — Egypt
  • Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Palaestina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3861. Retrieved 2019-04-11. 
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40 (1): 212–354. 

Wikidata ☰ Q380208 entry