Asemonea

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Asemonea
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Male Asemonea tenuipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Asemoneinae
Genus: Asemonea
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 [1]
Type species
A. tenuipes
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869)
Species

23, see text

Asemonea is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. [2]

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Species

As of July 2021 it contains twenty-three species, native to Asia and Africa. One species has been introduced to Queensland: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Asemonea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (4): 52–74. doi:10.1080/00222936908695878.


  1. Szűts, T. (2000). "An Afrotropical species, Asemonea stella (Araneae: Salticidae) found in Australia". Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 61: 61–63.