Singa (spider)

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Singa
Singa nitidula 02.JPG
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Singa
C. L. Koch, 1836[1]
Type species

(Clerck, 1757)
Species

28, see text

Singa, also called striped orb-weavers,[2] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1836.[3] They are small for orb-weavers, reaching 6 millimetres (0.24 in) or less in body length, excluding the legs.[4]

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-eight species:[1]

  • Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
  • Kauri, 1950 – South Africa
  • Yin, Wang & Li, 1983 – China
  • Song & Zhu, 1992 – China
  • Levy, 2007 – Israel
  • Thorell, 1873 – Europe
  • Schenkel, 1936 – China
  • Tikader, 1970 – India
  • Karsch, 1884 – São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China
  • (Worley, 1928) – USA
  • Singa eugeni Levi, 1972 – USA
  • Tikader, 1977 – India (Andaman Is.)
  • (Clerck, 1757) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
  • Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Schenkel, 1936 – China
  • Singa keyserlingi McCook, 1894 – USA, Canada
  • (Lessert, 1930) – Congo
  • (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • (Audouin, 1826) – Mediterranean to Central Asia
    • (Simon, 1929) – Algeria, Tunisia
  • (Simon, 1895) – India
  • (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Mediterranean, Iraq
  • C. L. Koch, 1844 – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia
  • (Thorell, 1892) – Singapore
  • L. Koch, 1867 – Mediterranean, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Iraq, Iran
  • Costa, 1885 – Italy (Sardinia)
  • (Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Java)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Singa C. L. Koch, 1836". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. ^ "Singa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. ^ Koch, C. L. (1836). Die Arachniden.
  4. ^ "Genus Singa". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-15.


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