Box kite spider
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| Box kite spiders | |
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| File:Isoxya tabulata, Krantzkloof Natuurreservaat, e.jpg | |
| I. tabulata | |
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| I. cicatricosa | |
| Scientific classification e | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Isoxya Simon, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| I. cicatricosa (C. L. Koch, 1844)
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| Species | |
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16, see text | |
Box kite spiders (Isoxya) is a genus of Afrotropical orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. Like the spiny orb-weavers they have six prominent (but short) spines on their abdomen. They are small spiders, measuring 3 to 7 millimetres (0.12 to 0.28 in) across.[1] They have a sclerotised (or porcelain-like) abdomen which is typical of the Gastricanthinae.[1]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[2]
- Isoxya basilewskyi Benoit & Emerit, 1975 – Rwanda, Congo
- Isoxya cicatricosa (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Yemen
- Isoxya cowani (Butler, 1883) – Madagascar
- Isoxya mahafalensis Emerit, 1974 – Madagascar
- Isoxya milloti Emerit, 1974 – Madagascar
- Isoxya mossamedensis Benoit, 1962 – Angola
- Isoxya mucronata (Walckenaer, 1841) – Central, Southern Africa
- Isoxya nigromutica (Caporiacco, 1939) – East Africa
- Isoxya penizoides Simon, 1887 – West, Central, East Africa
- Isoxya reuteri (Lenz, 1886) – Madagascar
- Isoxya semiflava Simon, 1887 – West, Central Africa
- Isoxya somalica (Caporiacco, 1940) – Somalia
- Isoxya stuhlmanni (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Isoxya tabulata (Thorell, 1859) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Isoxya testudinaria (Simon, 1901) – West, Central, East Africa
- Isoxya yatesi Emerit, 1973 – South Africa
References
- ^ a b Larsen, Norman. "Isoxya (box kite spiders)". biodiversity explorer. iziko museums. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
- ^ "Gen". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
External links
File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Isoxya at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Isoxya at WikispeciesError: "Q3015872" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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