Palaestina (spider)
| Palaestina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zodariidae |
| Genus: | O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 | |
Palaestina is a genus of ant spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only three species:[1]
- Palaestina dentifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 —
- Palaestina eremica Levy, 1992 — Egypt
- Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Palaestina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.