Falconina

Falconina is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Paolo Brignoli in 1985.[2]

Falconina
F. gracilis, adult female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Falconina
Brignoli, 1985[1]
Type species
F. melloi
(Schenkel, 1953)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Falconina albomaculosa (Schmidt, 1971) – Ecuador
  • Falconina crassipalpis (Chickering, 1937) – Panama, Cuba
  • Falconina gracilis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Introduced to USA
  • Falconina melloi (Schenkel, 1953) (type) – Colombia, Venezuela

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Falconina Brignoli, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  2. Brignoli, P. M. (1985). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society.


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