Palaestina (spider)

Palaestina is a genus of ant spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only three species:[1]

  • Palaestina dentifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Israel
  • Palaestina eremica Levy, 1992 — Egypt
  • Palaestina expolita O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon

Palaestina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Palaestina
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872[1]
Type species
P. expolita
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

References

  1. "Gen. Palaestina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 212–354.


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