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Genus of spiders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stegodyphus is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1873.[3] They are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species (S. manaus) found in Brazil. The name is derived from Ancient Greek στέγω (stegos), meaning "covered".
Stegodyphus | |
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Stegodyphus lineatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Eresidae |
Genus: | Stegodyphus Simon, 1873[1] |
Type species | |
S. lineatus (Latreille, 1817) | |
Species | |
20, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
At least three species are social spiders,[4] and several are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.[5]
As of May 2019[update] it contains twenty species:[1]
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