Agalenatea
Appearance
Agalenatea | |
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Agalenatea redii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Agalenatea Archer, 1951[1] |
Type species | |
A. redii (Scopoli, 1763)
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Species | |
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Agalenatea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1951.[2] As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species: A. redii with a palearctic distribution and A. liriope, found in Ethiopia and Yemen.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Agalenatea Archer, 1951". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ Archer, A. F. (1951). "Remarks on certain European genera of argiopid spiders". Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea. 84: 1–4.