Neoantistea

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Neoantistea
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Immature N. agilis
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drawing of N. agilis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus:Neoantistea
Gertsch, 1934 [1]
Type species
N. agilis
(Keyserling, 1887)
Species

25, see text

Neoantistea is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Willis J. Gertsch in 1934. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Willis John Gertsch was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider.

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species: [1]

<i>Neoantistea agilis</i> species of arachnid

Neoantistea agilis is a species of true spider in the family Hahniidae. It is found in the United States and Canada.

Type species term used in zoological nomenclature (also non-officially in botanical nomenclature)

In zoological nomenclature, a type species is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups called a type genus.

Paolo Marcello Brignoli was a prominent Italian entomologist. He studied a broad range of arachnid groups, including Araneidae, Acari, Ricinulei, Palpigradi, Schizomida, Opiliones, and Amblypygi. His research mainly focused on evolutionary systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography. Over the course of his career, he described 23 new genera and 367 new species belonging to 33 different arachnid families. The International Society of Arachnology's Brignoli Award is named in his honor.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Neoantistea Gertsch, 1934". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Gertsch, W. J. (1934). "Some American spiders of the family Hahniidae". American Museum Novitates. 712: 1–32.