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Atelidea

Atelidea is a genus of Asian long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. As of October 2019 it contains two species, found in Sri Lanka and India: A. nona and A. spinosa.

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Atelidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Atelidea
Simon, 18951
Type species
A. spinosa
Simon, 1895
Species

Atelidea is a genus of Asian long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.2 As of October 2019 it contains two species, found in Sri Lanka and India: A. nona and A. spinosa.1

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References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Atelidea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.