Segestria (spider)

Segestria is a genus of tube dwelling spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.[2]

Segestria
Temporal range: Cretaceous– Present
S. florentina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Segestriidae
Genus: Segestria
Latreille, 1804[1]
Type species
Aranea florentina
(Rossi, 1790)
Species

18, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eighteen species and one subspecies, found mainly in Eurasia, though some species are found in the Americas, two in North Africa, and one in New Zealand and one in Madagascar:[1]

gollark: Or `std.heavpoot list processor`.
gollark: Go for `std.heavlisp`.
gollark: Anyway, why limit yourself to 3 char extensions?
gollark: So heavlisp is a significantly lispier heavlang?
gollark: No.

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Segestria Latreille, 1804". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. Latreille, P. A. (1804). "Tableau methodique des Insectes". Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 24: 129–295.
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