Agalenatea

Agalenatea
	Cup spider ( Agalenatea redii ), female
Systematics
Order :	Spiders (aranaea)
Subordination :	Real spiders (Araneomorphae)
Partial order :	Entelegynae
Superfamily :	Orb web spiders (Araneoidea)
Family :	Real orb web spiders (Araneidae)
Genre :	Agalenatea
Scientific name
	Agalenatea
	Archer , 1951

Agalenatea is a genus Agalenatea from the family of the real orb web spiders (Araneidae) and comprises two species .

description

The species of the genus Agalenatea are rather small representatives of the orb web spiders, as the females reach a body length of 4 mm ( Agalenatea liriope ) or 8 mm ( Agalenatea redii ) depending on the species . The front body ( prosoma ) of the spiders is predominantly brown. In Agalenatea liriope , yellowish spots appear around the chelicerae. The abdomen ( opisthosoma ) is brownish to brownish yellow and is supplemented by yellowish white or pure white drawing elements.

distribution

Agalenatea liriope occurs exclusively in the tropics and is found there in East Africa and on some islands of the Red Sea , e.g. B. on the islands of Darsa and Socotra , whichbelongto Yemen . Due to the widespread distribution of the second species, Agalenatea redii , in the temperate to tropical zones of the Palearctic , the genus as a whole has a very wide distribution area.

Systematics

The World Spider Catalog lists two species for the genus Agalenatea .

Agalenatea liriope ( L. Koch , 1875)
Agalenatea redii ( Scopoli , 1763)

Both species were previously included in the genus Araneus . The genus Agalenatea was established in 1951 by Allan F. Archer by delimiting Araneus redii from Araneus . The genus was thus initially monotypical until the transfer of Araneus liriope by Manfred Grasshoff and Antonius van Harten in 2007 .

Web links

Commons : Agalenatea - collection of images, videos and audio files

Agalenatea in the World Spider Catalog

Agalenatea at Fauna Europaea

literature

Heiko Bellmann: Cosmos Atlas Arachnids of Europe . 3rd edition, 2006. Kosmos, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-440-10746-1 .
Ludwig Carl Christian Koch : Egyptian and Abyssinian arachnids collected by Mr. C. Jickeli . Nürnberg, 1875, pp. 1-96.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern: World Spider Catalog Version 17.5 - Agalenatea . Retrieved August 2, 2016.
^ ^A ^b Grasshoff, M. & Harten, A. van: Orb-weaving spiders of the family Araneidae (Araneae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia, 23, 2007, pp. 151-162.
^ Archer, AF: Remarks on certain European genera of argiopid spiders. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea, 84, 1851, pp. 1-4.

[WSC-1] Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern: World Spider Catalog Version 17.5 - Agalenatea . Retrieved August 2, 2016.

[GrasshoffHarten-2] A ^b Grasshoff, M. & Harten, A. van: Orb-weaving spiders of the family Araneidae (Araneae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia, 23, 2007, pp. 151-162.

[Archer-3] Archer, AF: Remarks on certain European genera of argiopid spiders. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural History Miscellanea, 84, 1851, pp. 1-4.