Nigma

Nigma
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Nigma
Nigma walckenaeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Nigma
Lehtinen, 1967
Species

See text.
Diversity
13 species

Nigma is a genus of araneomorph spiders that occurs in Eurasia and Northern Africa. They include with N. walckenaeri the biggest member of the family Dictynidae (up to 5mm body length).

Species

  • Nigma conducens (O. P-Cambridge, 1876) — North Africa
  • Nigma flavescens (Walckenaer, 1830) — Palearctic
  • Nigma gertschi (Berland & Millot, 1940) — Senegal
  • Nigma hortensis (Simon, 1870) — Spain, France, Algeria
  • Nigma laeta (Spassky, 1952) — Central Asia
  • Nigma linsdalei (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) — USA
  • Nigma longipes (Berland, 1914) — East Africa
  • Nigma puella (Simon, 1870) — Europe, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands
  • Nigma shiprai (Tikader, 1966) — India
  • Nigma tristis (Spassky, 1952) — Tajikistan
  • Nigma tuberosa Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary Islands
  • Nigma vulnerata (Simon, 1914) — Mediterranean
  • Nigma walckenaeri (Roewer, 1951) — Palearctic

References


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