Zilla (spider)

Zilla Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Z. diodia in net, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834 [1]
Type species
Z. diodia (Walckenaer, 1802)
Species
4, see text

Zilla is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1834. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains four species: ^[1]

• Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996 – China
• Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) (type) – Europe to Azerbaijan
• Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – India
• Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China

References

1. "Gen. Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-15.
2. Koch, C. L. (1834), "Arachniden", in Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.), Deutschlands Insecten

External links

• "Zilla". The Encyclopedia of Life .