Leviellus
| Leviellus | |
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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: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Leviellus Wunderlich, 2004[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. kochi (Thorell, 1870)
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| Species | |
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Leviellus, synonym Stroemiellus, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Wunderlich in 2004.[3]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains six species across Europe and Asia:[1]
- Leviellus caspicus (Simon, 1889) – Central Asia, Iran
- Leviellus inconveniens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon, Israel
- Leviellus kochi (Thorell, 1870) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Central Asia
- Leviellus poriensis (Levy, 1987) – Israel
- Leviellus stroemi (Thorell, 1870) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Korea
- Leviellus thorelli (Ausserer, 1871) – France, Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Leviellus Wunderlich, 2004". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Gregorič, M.; Agnarsson, I.; Blackledge, T. A.; Kuntner, M. (2015). "Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 240. doi:10.1111/zoj.12281.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (2004). "The fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Tetragnathidae and Zygiellidae n. stat. in Baltic and Dominican amber, with notes on higher extant and fossil taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3: 899–955.
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