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Segestria

Arachnida - Araneae - Segestriidae

Taxonomy
Segestria was named by Latreille (1804). It is extant. It is the type genus of Segestriidae.

It was assigned to Dysderidae by Scudder (1890) and Petrunkevitch (1922); and to Segestriidae by Dunlop et al. (2013), Selden (2014) and Wheeler et al. (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1804Segestria Latreille
1854Segestria elongata Koch and Berendt p. 72 figs. Pl 7, fig 65
1854Segestria nana Koch and Berendt p. 73 figs. Pl 8, fig 67
1890Segestria Scudder p. 61
1922Segestria Petrunkevitch
1942Segestria elongata Petrunkevitch p. 439 figs. 124-128,562, 568
1950Segestria elongata Petrunkevitch p. 329 figs. 156-159, 168-172
1958Segestria elongata Petrunkevitch p. 346
2013Segestria Dunlop et al.
2014Segestria Selden p. 276
2017Segestria Wheeler et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
Prosomapoda
Planaterga
Dekatriata
RankNameAuthor
SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
Serikodiastida
orderAraneae
suborderOpisthothelaePocock 1892
infraorderAraneomorphaeSmith 1902
SynspermiataMichalik and Ramírez 2014
superfamilyDysderoideaBristowe 1938
familySegestriidaeSimon 1893
genusSegestriaLatreille 1804

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Segestria Latreille 1804
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Segestria cristata Menge 1854
Segestria flexio Wunderlich 2004
Segestria mortalis Wunderlich 2004
Segestria plicata Petrunkevitch 1950
Segestria scudderi Petrunkevitch 1922
Segestria secessa Scudder 1890
Segestria succinei Berland 1939
Segestria tomentosa Koch and Berendt 1854
Invalid names: Segestria elongata Koch and Berendt 1854 [nomen dubium], Segestria nana Koch and Berendt 1854 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available