Asagena
Genus of spiders
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Asagena is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.[2]
| Asagena | |
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| Asagena phalerata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Asagena Sundevall, 1833[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. phalerata (Panzer, 1801) | |
| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species
As of May 2020[update] it contains nine species, found in North America, Europe, Asia, and Algeria:[1]
- Asagena americana Emerton, 1882 – Canada, USA, Mexico, China
- Asagena brignolii (Knoflach, 1996) – Greece
- Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena italica (Knoflach, 1996) – France (incl. Corsica), Switzerland, Italy, Algeria
- Asagena medialis (Banks, 1898) – USA, Mexico
- Asagena meridionalis Kulczyński, 1894 – Central to south-eastern and eastern Europe, Georgia
- Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea
- Asagena pulcher (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
- Asagena semideserta (Ponomarev, 2005) – Kazakhstan, Mongolia
In synonymy:
- A. amurica Strand, 1907 = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. nesiotes = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. parvula = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. phalerata = Asagena phalerata (Panzer, 1801)
- A. venusta = Asagena fulva (Keyserling, 1884)
