''Palaestina'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
ant spiders first described by
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and wor ...
in 1872.
it contains only three species:
*''
Palaestina dentifera''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 —
*''
Palaestina eremica''
Levy, 1992 — Egypt
*''
Palaestina expolita''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Greece, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon
References
Zodariidae
Araneomorphae genera
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