Zilla (spider)
Zilla Temporal range: | |
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Z. diodia in net, female | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834[1] |
Type species | |
Z. diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) | |
Species | |
4, see text |
Zilla is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1834.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996 – China
- Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) (type) – Europe to Azerbaijan
- Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – India
- Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1834), "Arachniden", in Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.), Deutschlands Insecten
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Zilla (Araneae).
- "Zilla" at the Encyclopedia of Life