Asagena Explained
Asagena is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.[1]
Species
it contains nine species, found in North America, Europe, Asia, and Algeria:[2]
- Asagena americana Emerton, 1882 – Canada, USA, Mexico, China
- Asagena brignolii (Knoflach, 1996) – Greece
- Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena italica (Knoflach, 1996) – France (incl. Corsica), Switzerland, Italy, Algeria
- Asagena medialis (Banks, 1898) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena meridionalis Kulczyński, 1894 – Central to south-eastern and eastern Europe, Georgia
- Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea
- Asagena pulcher (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
- Asagena semideserta (Ponomarev, 2005) – Kazakhstan, Mongolia
In synonymy:
- A. amurica Strand, 1907 = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. nesiotes = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. parvula = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. venusta = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Sundevall, C. J.. 1833. Conspectus Arachnidum. Londini Gothorum, pp. 1–39. Carl_Jakob_Sundevall.
- Web site: Gen. Asagena Sundevall, 1833. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-06-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.