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Badumna

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Badumna

| image = Badumna longinqua-Grey house spider (NZAC06001348).jpg

| image_caption = Badumna longinqua

| authority = Thorell, 1890

| type_species = B. hirsuta

| type_species_authority = Thorell, 1890

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 16, see text

| synonyms = *Aphyctoschaema Simon, 1902{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| volume=4| pages=215–228}}

  • Derxema Simon, 1906
  • Hesperauximus Gertsch, 1937{{cite journal| last=Marples| first=R. R.| year=1959| title=The dictynid spiders of New Zealand| journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand| volume=87| page=335}}
  • Ixeuticus Dalmas, 1917{{cite journal| last=Gray| first=M. R.| year=1983| title=The taxonomy of the semi-communal spiders commonly referred to the species Ixeuticus candidus (L. Koch) with notes on the genera Phryganoporus, Ixeuticus and Badumna (Araneae, Amaurobioidea)| journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales| volume=106| page=249}}

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Badumna is a genus of intertidal spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1890| title=Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1.| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=5–421| volume=28}} They are harmless spiders that can be found around human structures and buildings. The most well-known species is B. insignis, also known as the "black house spider" or "black window spider".{{cite web |date=2006-12-20 |title=Desis - Long-jawed intertidal spiders or lace web spiders |url=https://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/Desidae/Desidae.html |accessdate=2019-04-13 |publisher=Spiders of Australia}}

Description

They are medium to large cribellate spiders. The carapace is pale brown to a darker brown in color, with long or small brown hairs being found besides smaller white hairs. The opisthosoma has a dark striping or spotting.{{Cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Ming-Sheng |last2=Zhang |first2=Zhi-Sheng |last3=Yang |first3=Zi-Zhong |date=2006 |title=Discovery of the spider family Desidae (Araneae) in South China, with description of a new species of the genus Badumna Thorell, 1890 |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1172.1.4 |access-date=October 22, 2022 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1172 |page=43 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1172.1.4|url-access=subscription }}

Distribution

Most of the species are considered to be endemic in the Indo-Australian region, but some have been introduced elsewhere. B. longinqua is the only species introduced to North America, now found in urban areas along California's Pacific coast. B. insignis has also been found in Japan, though it is thought it was introduced.

Species

{{as of|2022|10}} it contains sixteen species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Badumna Thorell, 1890| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-31| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/707| doi=10.24436/2}}

References

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External links

  • [https://bugguide.net/node/view/242561 Badumna] at BugGuide

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Category:Desidae genera

Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell