Altella

Altella is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1884.[3]

Altella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Altella Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
A. lucida (Simon, 1874)
Species
11, see text
Synonyms[1]
Altellela Miller, 1949[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

• Altella aussereri Thaler, 1990 – Italy
• Altella biuncata (Miller, 1949) – Central Europe
• Altella caspia Ponomarev, 2008 – Kazakhstan
• Altella conglobata Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
• Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981 – Hungary, Ukraine, Russia (Europe)
• Altella lucida (Simon, 1874) (type) – Europe, Turkey
• Altella media Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Altella opaca Simon, 1911 – Algeria
• Altella orientalis Balogh, 1935 – Hungary
• Altella pygmaea Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Altella uncata Simon, 1884 – Algeria

References

1. "Gen. Altella Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
2. 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: 211.
3. Simon, E. (1884). "Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 9: 321–327.