''Argenna'' is a
genus
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of
cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family
Dictynidae, and was first described by
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
in 1870.
Species
it contains seven species:
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Argenna alxa''
Tang, 2011 – China
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Argenna obesa''
Emerton, 1911 – USA, Canada
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Argenna patula''
( Simon, 1874) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kyrgyzstan, China, Iran?
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Argenna polita''
( Banks, 1898) – Mexico
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Argenna sibirica''
Esyunin & Stepina, 2014 – Russia (West Siberia)
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Argenna subnigra''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861) (
type
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) – Europe, Azerbaijan, China
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Argenna yakima''
Chamberlin & Gertsch
Willis John Gertsch (October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1998) 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.
Gertsch was born ...
, 1958 – USA
References
Araneomorphae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Dictynidae
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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