Zilla (spider)

Genus of spiders

For other uses, see Zilla (disambiguation).

Zilla

Temporal range: Palaeogene–present

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Z. diodia in net, female
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Araneidae
Genus:  | Zilla
C. L. Koch, 1834[1]
Type species
Z. diodia

(Walckenaer, 1802)

Species

4, see text

Zilla is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1834.[2]

## Species

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

* Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996 – China
* Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) (type) – Europe to Azerbaijan
* Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – India
* Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
2. ^ Koch, C. L. (1834), "Arachniden", in Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.), Deutschlands Insecten

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zilla.

Wikispecies has information related to Zilla (Araneae).

* "Zilla". The Encyclopedia of Life.

Taxon identifiers

Zilla|

* Wikidata: Q1172479
* Wikispecies: Zilla (Araneae)
* ADW: Zilla
* BioLib: 1527
* BOLD: 179314
* CoL: 92QTB
* EoL: 89102
* Fauna Europaea: 178922
* Fauna Europaea (new): f3dadb51-2ed3-4ac4-a80b-d2e209cc08d9
* GBIF: 2158489
* iNaturalist: 419018
* IRMNG: 1344371
* ITIS: 849712
* NBN: NHMSYS0020706565
* NCBI: 1824586
* Open Tree of Life: 3571255
* Paleobiology Database: 268740
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01581

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