Gea (spider)
Appearance
Gea Temporal range:
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Gea spinipes Khao Yai National Park, Thailand | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Gea C. L. Koch, 1843[1] |
Type species | |
G. spinipes C. L. Koch, 1843
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Species | |
13, see text |
Gea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1843.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains thirteen species:[1]
- Gea africana Simon, 1895 – Congo
- Gea argiopides Strand, 1911 – New Guinea, Indonesia (Aru Is.)
- Gea bituberculata (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Gea eff Levi, 1983 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- Gea heptagon (Hentz, 1850) – Pacific Is., Australia. Introduced to USA to Argentina
- Gea infuscata Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa, Angola
- Gea nilotica Simon, 1906 – Sudan
- Gea spinipes C. L. Koch, 1843 – India, China, Taiwan to Indonesia (Borneo)
- Gea s. nigrifrons Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
- Gea subarmata Thorell, 1890 – India, Bangladesh to Philippines, New Guinea
- Gea theridioides (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Gea transversovittata Tullgren, 1910 – Congo, East Africa
- Gea zaragosa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – India, Philippines
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Gea C. L. Koch, 1843". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1843), Die Arachniden
External links
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