Leviellus

Leviellus, synonym Stroemiellus, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Wunderlich in 2004.[3]

Leviellus
Leviellus stroemi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Leviellus
Wunderlich, 2004[1]
Type species
L. kochi
(Thorell, 1870)
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Stroemiellus Wunderlich, 2004[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains six species across Europe and Asia:[1]

  • Leviellus caspicus (Simon, 1889) – Central Asia, Iran
  • Leviellus inconveniens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon, Israel
  • Leviellus kochi (Thorell, 1870) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Central Asia
  • Leviellus poriensis (Levy, 1987) – Israel
  • Leviellus stroemi (Thorell, 1870) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Korea
  • Leviellus thorelli (Ausserer, 1871) – France, Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe

References
  1. "Gen. Leviellus Wunderlich, 2004". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. Gregorič, M.; Agnarsson, I.; Blackledge, T. A.; Kuntner, M. (2015). "Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 240. doi:10.1111/zoj.12281.
  3. Wunderlich, J. (2004). "The fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Tetragnathidae and Zygiellidae n. stat. in Baltic and Dominican amber, with notes on higher extant and fossil taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3: 899–955.


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