Malthonica
| Malthonica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Malthonica Simon, 1898[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. lusitanica Simon, 1898
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| Species | |
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Malthonica is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.[2] Many of its species were transferred to Aterigena and Tegenaria in 2010.[3]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa
- Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 – Greece (Crete)
- Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 – Portugal to France
- Malthonica minoa (Brignoli, 1976) – Greece (Crete)
- Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal
- Malthonica paraschiae Brignoli, 1984 – Greece
- Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, 1990 – Greece
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ Simon, E. (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ^ 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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External links
"Malthonica" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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