Asagena

Asagena
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
9, see text

Asagena is a genus of comb-footed spiders (family Theridiidae) that was first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. ^[2]

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. amuricaStrand, 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)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

References

1. "Gen. Asagena Sundevall, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-06-11.
2. Sundevall, C. J. (1833). Conspectus Arachnidum. Londini Gothorum, pp. pp. 1–39.