Artema

Short description: Genus of spiders

Artema

Artema atlanta
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Pholcidae
Genus:  | Artema
Walckenaer, 1837[1]
Type species
A. atlanta

Walckenaer, 1837

Species

12, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Coroia González-Sponga, 2005[2]
* Pholciella Roewer, 1960[3]

Artema is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[4]

## Species

(As of July 2021) it contains twelve species, found in Africa, Asia, Greece, and Turkey:[1]

* Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837 (type) – Northern Africa and Middle East. Introduced elsewhere (mainly tropical and subtropical regions)
* Artema bahla Huber, 2019 – Oman
* Artema bunkpurugu Huber & Kwapong, 2013 – West Africa
* Artema dhofar Huber, 2019 – Oman
* Artema doriae (Thorell, 1881) – Turkey, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Afghanistan. Introduced: Japan
* Artema ghubrat Huber, 2019 – Oman
* Artema kochi Kulczyński, 1901 – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, Egypt?
* Artema magna Roewer, 1960 – Afghanistan, Pakistan?
* Artema martensi Huber, 2021 – Morocco
* Artema nephilit Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017 – Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Yemen?, United Arab Emirates?
* Artema transcaspica Spassky, 1934 – Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
* Artema ziaretana (Roewer, 1960) – Afghanistan

## See also

* List of Pholcidae species

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Artema Walckenaer, 1837. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2283. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. ↑ Huber, B. A.; Colmenares, P. A.; Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae". Zootaxa 3847 (3): 416. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5. PMID 25112347.
3. ↑ Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa 1970: 67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.
4. ↑ Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris 1, .. pp. 1–682.

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