Segestria (spider)

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Segestria
Temporal range: Cretaceous– Present
S. florentina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Segestriidae
Genus: Segestria
Latreille, 1804[1]
Type species
Aranea florentina
(Rossi, 1790)
Species

22, see text

Segestria is a

tube dwelling spiders that was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804.[2]

Species

As of September 2021[update] it contains 21 species and one subspecies, found mainly in Eurasia, though some species are found in the Americas, two in North Africa, and one in New Zealand and one in Madagascar:[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. ^ Latreille, P. A. (1804). "Tableau methodique des Insectes". Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 24: 129–295.