Langona
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Langona tartarica 1592.jpg
| image_caption = Langona tartarica
| taxon = Langona
| authority = Simon, 1901
| type_species = Attus redii
| type_species_authority = Audouin, 1826
| subdivision = See text
| subdivision_ranks = Species
}}
Langona is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 275 In 2015, it was listed in the subtribe Aelurillina. The subtribe is allocated to the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=279}} In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=95}}
Species
As of May 2023, the genus contains 45 species: {{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2020|title=Langona Simon, 1901|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2731|version=24.0|access-date=27 May 2023}}
- Langona albolinea Caleb & Mathai, 2015 – India
- Langona alfensis Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – Sudan
- Langona aperta (Denis, 1958) – Afghanistan
- Langona atrata Peng & Li, 2008 – China
- Langona avara Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Southern Africa
- Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
- Langona bhutanica Prószynski, 1978 – Bhutan, China
- Langona biangula Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
- Langona bisecta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Langona bitumorata Próchniewicz & Heciak, 1994 – Tanzania
- Langona bristowei Berland & Millot, 1941 – West, Central Africa
- Langona davidi (Caleb, Mungkung & Mathai, 2015) – India
- Langona fusca Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe
- Langona goaensis Prószynski, 1992 – India
- Langona hirsuta Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
- Langona hongkong Song et al., 1997 – Hong Kong
- Langona improcera Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- Langona kurracheensis Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – India
- Langona lotzi Wesołowska, 2011 – Lesotho, South Africa
- Langona maculata Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
- Langona magna Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa
- Langona maindroni (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
- Langona mallezi (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
- Langona manicata Simon, 1901 – South Africa
- Langona mediocris Wesołowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe
- Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Langona oreni Prószynski, 2000 – Israel
- Langona pallida Prószynski, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan
- Langona pallidula Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Turkmenistan
- Langona pattayensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 – Thailand
- Langona pecten Próchniewicz & Heciak, 1994 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Langona pilosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
- Langona recta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
- Langona redii (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel, Syria
- Langona sabulosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia
- Langona senegalensis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
- Langona simoni Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – India
- Langona tartarica (Charitonov, 1946) – Central Asia, China
- Langona tigrina (Simon, 1885) – India
- Langona tortuosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Langona trifoveolata (Lessert, 1927) – Congo Basin
- Langona ukualuthensis Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Langona vitiosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
- Langona warchalowskii Wesołowska, 2007 – South Africa
- Langona zimbabwensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Zimbabwe
Footnotes
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References
- {{cite journal | last1=Maddison | first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=The Journal of Arachnology | year= 2015 | volume=43 | number=3 | pages=231–292 | doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 | author-link=Wayne Maddison}}
- {{cite book | last1=Murphy | first1=Frances | last2=Murphy | first2=John | year=2000 | title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia | publisher=Malaysian Nature Society | location=Kuala Lumpur}}
- {{cite journal | last=Prószyński | first=Jerzy | year=2017 | title=Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae) | journal=Ecologica Montenegrina | volume=12 | pages=1–133 | doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| doi-access=free }}
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