Minosia

Minosia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Minosia Dalmas, 1921 [1]
Type species
M. spinosissima (Simon, 1878)
Species
13, see text
Synonyms [1]
Crosbyellum Strand, 1934 [2]

Minosia is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1921. ^[3]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains thirteen species and one subspecies: ^[1]

• Minosia assimilis Caporiacco, 1941 – Ethiopia, Uganda
• Minosia berlandi Lessert, 1929 – Congo
• Minosia bicalcarata (Simon, 1882) – Yemen
• Minosia clypeolaria (Simon, 1907) – Guinea-Bissau
• Minosia eburneensis Jézéquel, 1965 – Ivory Coast
• Minosia irrugata (Simon, 1907) – Guinea-Bissau
• Minosia karakumensis (Spassky, 1939) – Turkmenistan
• Minosia lynx (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
• Minosia pharao Dalmas, 1921 – Egypt, Israel
  • Minosia p. occidentalis Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria
• Minosia santschii Dalmas, 1921 – Tunisia, Libya
• Minosia senegaliensis Dalmas, 1921 – Senegal
• Minosia simeonica Levy, 1995 – Israel, Iran
• Minosia spinosissima (Simon, 1878) (type) – Spain, France, Israel

References

1. "Gen. Minosia Dalmas, 1921". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-04.
2. Bonnet, P. (1956). "Bibliographia araneorum". Douladoure, Toulouse. 2 (2): 1249.
3. Dalmas, R. de (1921). "Monographie des araignées de la section des Pterotricha (Aran. Gnaphosidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 89: 233–328.