Biology:Simitidion

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Simitidion
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Simitidion simile figure 119
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Simitidion
Wunderlich, 1992[1]
Type species
S. simile
(C. L. Koch, 1836)
Species

Simitidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.[2] (As of June 2020) it contains three species, native to Africa, Asia and Europe, and introduced to Canada : S. agaricographum, S. lacuna, and S. simile.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992". Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3538. Retrieved 2020-07-14. 
  2. Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1–619. 

Further reading

  • Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1–522. 
  • Wunderlich, J. (2008). "On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 819–859. 
  • Levy, G. (1998), "Araneae: Theridiidae", Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III 
  • Knoflach, B. (1996). "Das Männchen von Simitidion agaricographum (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 83: 149–156. 

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