Malthonica

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Agelenoidea

Familia: Agelenidae
Genus: Malthonica
Species: M. africana – M. aliquoi – M. anhela – M. annulata – M. argaeica – M. arganoi – M. balearica – M. bozhkovi – M. campestris – M. daedali – M. dalmatica – M. eleonorae – M. epacris – M. ferruginea – M. lehtineni – M. lenkoranica – M. lusitanica – M. lyncea – M. maronita – M. mediterranea – M. minoa – M. montana – M. nakhchivanica – M. nemorosa – M. oceanica – M. pagana – M. paraschiae – M. parvula – M. pasquinii – M. picta – M. podoprygorai – M. pseudolyncea – M. ramblae – M. rilaensis – M. sardoa – M. sbordonii – M. sicana – M. silvestris – M. soriculata – M. spinipalpis – M. tyrrhenica – M. vallei – M. vomeroi
Name

Malthonica Simon, 1898: Hist. Araign., ed. 2, 2, fasc. 2, 258.

Type species: Malthonica lusitanica Eugène Simon, 1898

Synonymy

Philoicides Mello-Leitão, 1944
Type species: Philoicides pallidus Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, 1944, by monotypy

References
Additional references

Bolzern, A., Burckhardt, D. & Hänggi, A. 2013. Phylogeny and taxonomy of European funnel-web spiders of the Tegenaria-Malthonica complex (Araneae: Agelenidae) based upon morphological and molecular data. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 168(4): 723–848. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12040 Reference page.
Guseinov, E.F., Marusik, Y.M. & Koponen, S. 2005. Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 5. Faunistic review of the funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae) with the description of new genus and species. Arthropoda Selecta 14(2): 153–-177. full article (PDF). Reference page.

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 April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

Malthonica africana Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa
Malthonica daedali Brignoli, 1980 – Greece (Crete)
Malthonica lusitanica Simon, 1898 – Portugal to France
Malthonica minoa (Brignoli, 1976) – Greece (Crete)
Malthonica oceanica Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal
Malthonica paraschiae Brignoli, 1984 – Greece
Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, 1990 – Greece

References

"Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
Simon, E. (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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" at the Encyclopedia of Life