Benoitia
| Benoitia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. bornemiszai (Caporiacco, 1947)
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| Species | |
Benoitia is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 10 species:[1]
- Benoitia agraulosa (Wang & Wang, 1991) – China
- Benoitia bornemiszai (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
- Benoitia deserticola (Simon, 1910) – Namibia, Botswana
- Benoitia lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
- Benoitia ocellata (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
- Benoitia raymondeae (Lessert, 1915) – East Africa
- Benoitia rhodesiae (Pocock, 1901) – Southern Africa
- Benoitia tadzhika (Andreeva, 1976) – European Russia to Central Asia
- Benoitia timida (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel
- Benoitia upembana (Roewer, 1955) – Congo
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
External links
[edit]"Benoitia" at the Encyclopedia of Life