Malthonica

Malthonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Agelenidae
Genus:	Malthonica Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
M. lusitanica Simon, 1898
Species
4, see text

Malthonica is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.[2] Many of its species were transferred to Aterigena and Tegenaria in 2010.[3]

Species

As of May 2024^[update] it contains four species:[1]

• Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa
• Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 – Greece (Crete)
• Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 – Portugal to France
• Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal

References

1. "Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
2. Simon, E. (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
3. Bolzern, Angelo; Hänggi, Ambros & Burckhardt, Daniel (2010). "Aterigena, a new genus of funnel-web spider, shedding some light on the Tegenaria-Malthonica problem (Araneae: Agelenidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 38 (2): 162–182. doi:10.1636/A09-78.1. S2CID 83969637.

External links

"Malthonica". The Encyclopedia of Life.