Malthonica

Malthonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Agelenidae
Genus:Malthonica
Simon, 1898[1]
Species

See text.

Malthonica (Mediterranean grass spiders) is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae. Most of the species formerly placed in this genus were transferred to Aterigena and Tegenaria in 2010, leaving only seven species as of October 2016.[1][2]

Species

As of October 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa
  • Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 – Crete
  • Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 (type species) – Portugal to France
  • Malthonica minoa (Brignoli, 1976) – Crete
  • Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal
  • Malthonica paraschiae Brignoli, 1984 – Greece
  • Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, 1990 – Greece

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  2. ↑ 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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