Ajmonia Explained

Ajmonia is a genus of cribellate araneomorph spiders in the family Dictynidae, and was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.^[1]

Species

it contains twelve species restricted to Asia and parts of Algeria:^[2]

• Ajmonia aurita Song & Lu, 1985 – Kazakhstan, China
• Ajmonia bedeshai (Tikader, 1966) – India (mainland, Andaman Is.)
• Ajmonia capucina (Schenkel, 1936) – China
• Ajmonia lehtineni Marusik & Koponen, 1998 – Mongolia
• Ajmonia marakata (Sherriffs, 1927) – India
• Ajmonia numidica (Denis, 1937) – Algeria
• Ajmonia patellaris (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
• Ajmonia procera (Kulczyński, 1901) – China
• Ajmonia psittacea (Schenkel, 1936) – China
• Ajmonia rajaeii Zamani & Marusik, 2017 – Iran
• Ajmonia smaragdula (Simon, 1905) – Sri Lanka
• Ajmonia velifera (Simon, 1906) (type) – India to China

Notes and References

1. Caporiacco. L. di. 1934. Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram raccolti dalla Missione Italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII).. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova. 113–160. 13.
2. Gen. Ajmonia Caporiacco, 1934. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.