''Cyllognatha'' is a

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of comb-footed spiders that was first described by

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was born in Regensburg, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medic ...

in 1872.

Species

it contains four species, found in Australia,

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

, and

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

: *'' Cyllognatha affinis''

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, 1929 –

*'' Cyllognatha gracilis'' Marples, 1955 – Samoa *'' Cyllognatha subtilis'' L. Koch, 1872 (

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) – Australia (Lord Howe Is.), Samoa *'' Cyllognatha surajbe'' Patel & Patel, 1972 –

References

Araneomorphae genera Spiders of the Indian subcontinent Spiders of Oceania Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch Theridiidae {{Theridiidae-stub

Species

See also

References