Nigma
This article is about the spider. For the Batman supervillain, see Riddler. For the Cypriot cargo ship, see SS Nigma.
| Nigma | |
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| Nigma walckenaeri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Dictynidae |
| Genus: | Nigma Lehtinen, 1967 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 13 species | |
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).
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 puella (Simon, 1870) — Europe, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands
- Nigma shiprai (Tikader, 1966) — India
- Nigma tristis (Spassky, 1952) — Tajikistan
- Nigma tuberosa Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary Islands
- Nigma vulnerata (Simon, 1914) — Mediterranean
- Nigma walckenaeri (Roewer, 1951) — Palearctic
References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.