Singa (spider) explained

Singa, also called striped orb-weavers,^[1] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1836.^[2] They are small for orb-weavers, reaching or less in body length, excluding the legs.^[3]

Species

it contains twenty-eight species:^[4]

• Singa albobivittata Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
• Singa albodorsata Kauri, 1950 – South Africa
• Singa alpigena Yin, Wang & Li, 1983 – China
• Singa alpigenoides Song & Zhu, 1992 – China
• Singa ammophila Levy, 2007 – Israel
• Singa aussereri Thorell, 1873 – Europe
• Singa bifasciata Schenkel, 1936 – China
• Singa chota Tikader, 1970 – India
• Singa concinna Karsch, 1884 – São Tomé and Príncipe
• Singa cruciformis Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China
• Singa cyanea (Worley, 1928) – USA
• Singa eugeni Levi, 1972 – USA
• Singa haddooensis Tikader, 1977 – India (Andaman Is.)
• Singa hamata (Clerck, 1757) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
• Singa hilira Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Singa kansuensis Schenkel, 1936 – China
• Singa keyserlingi McCook, 1894 – USA, Canada
• Singa lawrencei (Lessert, 1930) – Congo
• Singa leucoplagiata (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Singa lucina (Audouin, 1826) – Mediterranean to Central Asia
  • S. l. eburnea (Simon, 1929) – Algeria, Tunisia
• Singa myrrhea (Simon, 1895) – India
• Singa neta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Mediterranean, Iraq
• Singa nitidula C. L. Koch, 1844 – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia
• Singa perpolita (Thorell, 1892) – Singapore
• Singa semiatra L. Koch, 1867 – Mediterranean, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Iraq, Iran
• Singa simoniana Costa, 1885 – Italy (Sardinia)
• Singa theodori (Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Java)

See also

• Hypsosinga

Notes and References

1. Web site: Singa Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2019-05-14.
2. Book: Koch, C. L.. 1836. Die Arachniden.
3. Web site: Genus Singa. BugGuide. 2019-05-15.
4. Gen. Singa C. L. Koch, 1836. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.