Altella

Short description: Genus of spiders

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]

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

## Species

As of May 2019[update] 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Altella Simon, 1884. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/748. 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.

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