Ajmonia

Ajmonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Ajmonia ; Caporiacco, 1934
Type species
	A. velifera ; (Simon, 1906)
Species
	12, see text

Last updated March 21, 2026

Ajmonia is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twelve species restricted to Asia and parts of Algeria:^[1]

Ajmonia aurita Song & Lu, 1985 – Kazakhstan, China
Ajmonia bedeshai (Tikader, 1966) – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
Ajmonia capucina (Schenkel, 1936) – China
Ajmonia lehtineni Marusik & Koponen, 1998 – Mongolia
Ajmonia marakata (Sherriffs, 1927) – India
Ajmonia numidica (Denis, 1937) – Algeria
Ajmonia patellaris (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
Ajmonia procera (Kulczyński, 1901) – China
Ajmonia psittacea (Schenkel, 1936) – China
Ajmonia rajaeii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran
Ajmonia smaragdula (Simon, 1905) – Sri Lanka
Ajmonia velifera (Simon, 1906) (type) – India to China

References

1 2 "Gen. Ajmonia Caporiacco, 1934". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
↑ Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram raccolti dalla Missione Italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII)". Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova. 13: 113–160.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Ajmonia Caporiacco, 1934". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.

[Capo1934-2] Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram raccolti dalla Missione Italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII)". Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova. 13: 113–160.

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