Eidmannella | |
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E. pallida | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Nesticidae |
Genus: | Eidmannella Roewer [1] |
Type species | |
Eidmannella pallida | |
Species | |
8, see text |
Eidmannella is a genus of scaffold web spiders first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1935. [2]
As of February 2019 [update] , it contains eight species: [1]
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