Zygiella

Zygiella
Zygiella atrica
Zygiella x-notata, female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
Species

11, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004

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]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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. doi:10.1080/00222930208678530.
  3. ^ 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.