Zygiella
| Zygiella | |
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| Zygiella atrica | |
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| Zygiella x-notata, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| Z. atrica (C. L. Koch, 1845)
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Zygiella is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2] In 2015, Parazygiella was determined to be a taxonomic synonym of Zygiella, and its species were moved to Zygiella.[3]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains eleven species:[1]
- Zygiella atrica (C. L. Koch, 1845) (type) – Europe. Introduced to USA, Canada
- Zygiella calyptrata (Workman & Workman, 1894) – China, Myanmar, Malaysia
- Zygiella carpenteri Archer, 1951 – USA
- Zygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885) – North America, Russia (Far East), Japan
- Zygiella hiramatsui Tanikawa, 2017 – Japan
- Zygiella keyserlingi (Ausserer, 1871) – Southern Europe, Ukraine, Turkey
- Zygiella kirgisica Bakhvalov, 1974 – Kyrgyzstan
- Zygiella minima [[G�nter Schmidt (arachnologist)|Schmidt]], 1968 – Canary Is., Madeira
- Zygiella montana (C. L. Koch, 1834) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Uzbekistan
- Zygiella nearctica Gertsch, 1964 – Canada, USA
- Zygiella x-notata (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran? Introduced to North America, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, China, Japan, Réunion
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902). "A revision of the genera of Araneae or spiders with reference to their type species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (7): 5–20.
- ^ Gregorič, Matjaž; Agnarsson, Ingi; Blackledge, Todd A.; Kuntner, Matjaž (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): 225–243. doi:10.1111/zoj.12281.
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