Nigma

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Nigma
Nigma walckenaeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Nigma
Lehtinen, 1967
Diversity
13 species
Species

See text.
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Nigma is a genus of araneomorph spiders that occurs in Eurasia and Northern Africa. They include with N. walckenaeri the biggest member of the family Dictynidae (up to 5mm body length).

[edit] Species

  • Nigma conducens (O. P-Cambridge, 1876) (North Africa)
  • Nigma flavescens (Walckenaer, 1830) (Palearctic)
  • Nigma gertschi (Berland & Millot, 1940) (Senegal)
  • Nigma hortensis (Simon, 1870) (Spain, France, Algeria)
  • Nigma laeta (Spassky, 1952) (Central Asia)
  • Nigma linsdalei (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958) (USA)
  • Nigma longipes (Berland, 1914) (East Africa)
  • Nigma noname (Steiner, 1989) (California)
  • Nigma puella (Simon, 1870) (Europe, Azores, Madeira, Canary Is.)
  • Nigma shiprai (Tikader, 1966) (India)
  • Nigma tristis (Spassky, 1952) (Tajikistan)
  • Nigma tuberosa Wunderlich, 1987 (Canary Is.)
  • Nigma vulnerata (Simon, 1914) (Mediterranean)
  • Nigma walckenaeri (Roewer, 1951) (Palearctic)


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