Coscinida

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Coscinida

|image=Coscinida.japonica.female.-.tanikawa.jpg

|image_caption=Coscinida japonica

| authority = Simon, 1895

| type_species = C. tibialis

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1895

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 17, see text

| synonyms =

  • Loxonychia Tullgren, 1910{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| page=23}}
  • Theridiella Tullgren, 1910

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Coscinida is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=131–160| volume=64| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}

Species

{{as of|2020|05}} it contains seventeen species, found in Asia, Europe, and Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Coscinida Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-06-12| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3469| doi=10.24436/2}}

Formerly included:

  • C. subtilis Simon, 1895 (Transferred to Stemmops)

See also

References