Simitidion
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = BlackwallSpidersPlateXIV.jpg
| image_caption = Simitidion simile figure 119
| taxon = Simitidion
| authority = Wunderlich, 1992
| type_species = S. simile
| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1836)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
| S. agaricographum|(Levy & Amitai, 1982) – Tunisia, Greece (mainland, Crete), Turkey, Cyprus, Israel
| S. lacuna|Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is., Spain, North Africa, Israel
| S. simile|(C. L. Koch, 1836) – Canada, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia}}
}}
Simitidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=1992| title=Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| pages=1–619| volume=1}} {{as of|2020|06}} it contains three species, native to Africa, Asia and Europe, and introduced to Canada: S. agaricographum, S. lacuna, and S. simile.{{cite web| title=Gen. Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-14| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3538| doi=10.24436/2}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Le Peru| first=B.| year=2011| title=The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae| journal=Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon| pages=1–522| volume=2}}
- {{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=2008| title=On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| pages=819–859| volume=5}}
- {{citation| last=Levy| first=G.| year=1998| contribution=Araneae: Theridiidae| title=Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III}}
- {{cite journal| last=Knoflach| first=B.| year=1996| title=Das Männchen von Simitidion agaricographum (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck| pages=149–156| volume=83}}
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