Persilena

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Persilena
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Persilena
Zamani & Marusik, 2020 [1]
Species:
P. sengleti
Binomial name
Persilena sengleti
Zamani & Marusik, 2020 [1]

Persilena is a monotypic genus of Middle Eastern funnel weavers containing the single species, Persilena sengleti. It was first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2020, [2] and it has only been found in Iran. [1]

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Etymology

The name is a combination of "Persia" and Agelena , due to similarities with that genus. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Persilena Zamani & Marusik, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  2. 1 2 Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M. (2020). "A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera" . Arachnology. 18 (4): 368–386. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368. S2CID   214702963.
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