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Issue: Vol. 2267 No. 1: 19 Oct. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2267.1.5
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 21

First description of the female of the spider Savignia zero Eskov, 1988 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

University of Bern, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland Natural History Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan, Russia
University of Bern, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland Natural History Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
Araneae Linyphiidae Savignia zero Russia

Abstract

Savignia is a relatively large and well defined Holarctic spider genus (see Eskov 1988). It includes 23 species, of which seven are known by males only (Platnick 2009). Thirteen species, including many endemics, have been recorded from the Far East Palaearctic (Eskov 1991).

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