Sagellula

Sagellula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Sparassidae
Genus:Sagellula
Strand, 1942[1][2]
Species
  • Sagellula octomunita (Dönitz & Strand in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)[3]
  • Sagellula xizangensis (Hu, 2001)
Synonyms
  • Sagella Strand in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906[3] not Paetel, 1889

Sagellula is a genus of spiders in the Sparassidae family. It was first described in 1906 by Embrik Strand under the name Sagella, but he renamed it in 1942 to Sagellula as Sagella had a senior homonym. As of 2017, it contains 2 species from Japan and China.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Sparassidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  2. ↑ Strand, Embrik (1942). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. X" (PDF). Folio Zoologica et Hydrobiologica. Riga. 11 (2): 386–402.
  3. 1 2 Bösenberg, W.; Strand, Embr. (1906). "Japanische Spinnen". Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 30 (1–2): 385–386.

Further reading

  • Jäger, Peter; Yin, Chang-Min (2001). "Sparassidae in China. 1. Revised list of known species with new transfers, new synonymies and type designations (Arachnida: Araneae)". Acta Arachnologica. 50 (2): 131. doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.123.


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