Moggridgea

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Moggridgea.jpg

| image_caption = Moggridgea sp. from South Africa

| taxon = Moggridgea

| authority = O. P-Cambridge, 1875

| diversity = 33 species

| diversity_link = List of Migidae species#Moggridgea

| type_species = Moggridgea dyeri

| type_species_authority = O. P-Cambridge, 1875

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Moggridgea is a genus of spiders in the tree dwelling family, Migidae.

The genus was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1875, who named the genus after naturalist John Traherne Moggridge.

The majority of the 32 species of the genus are found in southern Africa and Socotra, with an outlying species in Australia's Kangaroo Island.

List of ''Moggridgea'' species

References

  • {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
  • Main, B.Y. 1991. [http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/content/w0242499638n5h47/ Occurrence of the trapdoor spider genus Moggridgea in Australia with descriptions of two new species] (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Migidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 383-397 [385].
  • {{cite journal

| last = Cambridge

| first = O P-

| year = 1875

| title = On a new genus and species of trap-door spider from South Africa

| journal = Annals and Magazine of Natural History

| volume = 16

| pages = 317–322

| url = http://biostor.org/reference/60186

| doi=10.1080/00222937508681860

}}

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Category:Migidae

Category:Mygalomorphae genera

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Spiders of Australia

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