Andasta
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Andasta
| authority = Simon, 1895
| type_species = A. semiargentea
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1895
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}
Andasta is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1895| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}}
Species
{{as of|2020|06}} it contains four species, found in Asia and on the Seychelles:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Andasta Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2020-07-16| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3563| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Andasta benoiti (Roberts, 1978) – Seychelles
- Andasta cyclosina Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
- Andasta semiargentea Simon, 1895 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Andasta siltte Saaristo, 1996 – Seychelles (Silhouette Island){{Cite iucn | author = Gerlach, J. | title = Andasta siltte | volume = 2014 | page = e.T196505A2458875 | date = 2014 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196505A2458875.en | access-date = 5 January 2018 | mode = cs2}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Saaristo| first=M. I.| year=1996| title=Theridiosomatid spiders of the granitic islands of Seychelles (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae)| journal=Phelsuma| pages=48–52| volume=4}}
- {{citation| last=Saaristo| first=M. I.| year=2010| contribution=Araneae| editor-last1=Gerlach| editor-first1=J.| editor-last2=Marusik| editor-first2=Y. M.| title=Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands}}
- {{cite journal| last=Coddington| first=J. A.| year=1986| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae| journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology| pages=1–96| volume=422| issue=422| doi=10.5479/si.00810282.422}}
- {{cite journal| last=Roberts| first=M.| year=1978| title=Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Theridiidae, Mysmenidae and gen. Theridiosoma (Araneidae) (Araneae)| journal=Revue Zoologique Africaine| pages=902–939| volume=92}}
- {{cite journal| last=Brignoli| first=P. M.| year=1972| title=Ragni di Ceylon I. Missione biospeleologica Aellen-Strinati (1970) (Arachnida, Araneae)| journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie| pages=907–929| volume=79| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.97143| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/97143| doi-access=free}}
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