Metazygia
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| Metazygia | |
|---|---|
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| Metazygia zilloides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Metazygia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. wittfeldae (McCook, 1894) | |
| Species | |
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90, see text | |
Metazygia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904.[2] They physically resemble members of Nuctenea, but they do not have fine setae on the carapace.[3][4]
