Guizygiella

Guizygiella
Guizygiella nadleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Guizygiella Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 [1]
Type species
G. salta (Yin & Gong, 1996)
Species
6, see text

Guizygiella is a genus of Asian orb-weaver spiders that was first described by M. S. Zhu, J. P. Kim and D. X. Song in 1997. ^[2] It was transferred from the family Tetragnathidae to Araneidae by Kallal & Hormiga in 2022. ^[3]

Species

As of May 2024 ^[update] it contains six species, found in Asia: ^[1]

• Guizygiella guangxiensis (Zhu & Zhang, 1993) – China, Laos
• Guizygiella indica (Tikader & Bal, 1980) – India
• Guizygiella melanocrania (Thorell, 1887) – India to China, Laos
• Guizygiella nadleri (Heimer, 1984) – China, Laos, Vietnam
• Guizygiella salta (Yin & Gong, 1996) (type) – China
• Guizygiella shivui (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India

In synonymy:

• G. baojingensis(Yin, 2002, T from Zygiella) = Guizygiella salta(Yin & Gong, 1996)
• G. quadrataZhu, Kim & Song, 1997 = Guizygiella salta(Yin & Gong, 1996)

References

1. "Gen. Guizygiella Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-11-16.
2. Zhu, M. S.; Kim, J. P.; Song, D. X. (1997). "On three new genera and four new species of the family Tetragnathidae (Araneae) from China". Korean Arachnology. 13 (2): 1–10.
3. Kallal, Robert J.; Hormiga, Gustavo (15 August 2022). "The family placement of the Asian orb-weaving spider genus Guizygiella Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 (Araneae: Araneoidea)". Zootaxa. 5175 (1): 146–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.8.