Azilia

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders|the genus of flowering plants|Azilia eryngioides}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Azilia

| authority = Keyserling, 1881

| type_species = A. formosa

| type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1881

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 11, see text

| synonyms =

| synonyms_ref =

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Azilia is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.{{cite journal| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1881| title=Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. III| journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien| pages=269–314| volume=31| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.20318| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/20318| author-link=Eugen von Keyserling}} It is a senior synonym of Cardimia.{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=2002| title=Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=30| issue=3| page=562| doi=10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/227147}}

Species

{{as of|2021|03}} it contains eleven species, found in Central America, South America, Cuba, on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and in the United States:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Azilia Keyserling, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version| accessdate=2025-04-04| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3273| doi=10.24436/2}}

In synonymy:

  • A. mexicana Banks, 1898 = Azilia affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893
  • A. vagepicta Simon, 1895 = Azilia affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893

Formerly placed here

  • Azilia leucostigma Mello-Leitão, 1941– now in Galianoella

See also

References

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Category:Tetragnathidae genera

Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling

Category:Tetragnathidae

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