Milonia Explained

Milonia is a genus of Southeast Asian orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.^[1]

Species

it contains seven species:^[2]

• Milonia albula O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Singapore
• Milonia brevipes Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Milonia hexastigma (Hasselt, 1882) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Milonia obtusa Thorell, 1892 – Singapore
• Milonia singaeformis (Hasselt, 1882) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Milonia tomosceles Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Milonia trifasciata Thorell, 1890 – Indonesia (Java, Borneo)

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1890. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1.. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 5–421. 28.
2. Web site: Gen. Milonia Thorell, 1890. World Spider Catalog. 2019-05-14. Natural History Museum Bern.