Sintula
Genus of spiders
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Sintula is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]
| Sintula | |
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| female S. retroversus in Italy | |
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| male S. retroversus in Italy | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Sintula Simon, 1884[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. corniger (Blackwall, 1856) | |
| Species | |
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19, see text | |
Distribution
Spiders in this genus are found in Europe, Russia, and North Africa.[1]
Species
As of January 2026[update], this genus includes nineteen species:[1]
- Sintula adullam Tanasevitch, 2025 – Israel
- Sintula corniger (Blackwall, 1856) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran
- Sintula cretaensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (Crete)
- Sintula cristatus Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey
- Sintula diceros Simon, 1926 – France, Spain
- Sintula furcifer (Simon, 1912) – Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria
- Sintula iberica Bosmans, 2010 – Portugal, Spain
- Sintula karineae Lecigne, 2021 – Turkey, Israel
- Sintula matta Tanasevitch, 2025 – Israel
- Sintula orientalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
- Sintula oseticus Tanasevitch, 1990 – Russia (Caucasus)
- Sintula pecten Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Islands
- Sintula penicilliger (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
- Sintula pseudocorniger Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria, Tunisia
- Sintula retroversus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Spain to Ukraine and Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Israel
- Sintula roeweri Kratochvíl, 1935 – Montenegro
- Sintula solitarius Gnelitsa, 2012 – Ukraine
- Sintula spiniger (Balogh, 1935) – Austria to Greece and Russia (Europe)
- Sintula subterminalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
