''Leviellus'',
synonym
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''Stroemiellus'', is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Wunderlich in 2004.
Species
it contains six species across Europe and Asia:
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Leviellus caspicus''
(Simon
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, 1889) – Central Asia, Iran
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Leviellus inconveniens''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon, Israel
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Leviellus kochi''
(Thorell, 1870) – Southern Europe, North Africa, Central Asia
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Leviellus poriensis''
(Levy, 1987) – Israel
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Leviellus stroemi''
(Thorell, 1870) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Korea
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Leviellus thorelli''
( Ausserer, 1871) – France, Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
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