Sintula

Sintula
Sintula corniger (Bl.) figure 187.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Sintula Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
S. corniger (Blackwall, 1856)
Species
18, see text

Sintula is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]

Species

As of July 2021^[update] it contains eighteen species, found in Europe, Russia, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia:[1]

• Sintula corniger (Blackwall, 1856) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• Sintula cretaensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (Crete)
• Sintula criodes (Thorell, 1875) – Ukraine
• Sintula cristatus Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey
• Sintula diceros Simon, 1926 – France, Spain
• Sintula furcifer (Simon, 1911) – Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria
• Sintula iberica Bosmans, 2010 – Portugal, Spain
• Sintula karineae Lecigne, 2021 – Turkey
• Sintula orientalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
• Sintula oseticus Tanasevitch, 1990 – Russia (Caucasus)
• Sintula pecten Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
• Sintula penicilliger (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
• Sintula pseudocorniger Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria, Tunisia
• Sintula retroversus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
• Sintula roeweri Kratochvíl, 1935 – Montenegro
• Sintula solitarius Gnelitsa, 2012 – Ukraine
• Sintula spiniger (Balogh, 1935) – Austria to Greece and Russia (Europe)
• Sintula subterminalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Sintula Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
2. Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 180–885.