''Singa'', also called striped orb-weavers,
is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
C. L. Koch in 1836.
They are small for orb-weavers, reaching or less in body length, excluding the legs.
Species
it contains twenty-eight species:
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Singa albobivittata''
Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
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Singa albodorsata''
Kauri, 1950 – South Africa
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Singa alpigena''
Yin, Wang & Li, 1983 – China
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Singa alpigenoides''
Song & Zhu, 1992 – China
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Singa ammophila''
Levy, 2007 – Israel
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Singa aussereri''
Thorell, 1873 – Europe
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Singa bifasciata''
Schenkel, 1936 – China
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Singa chota''
Tikader, 1970 – India
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Singa concinna''
Karsch, 1884 – São Tomé and Príncipe
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Singa cruciformis''
Yin, Peng & Wang, 1994 – China
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Singa cyanea''
(Worley, 1928) – USA
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Singa eugeni''
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, 1972 – USA
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Singa haddooensis''
Tikader, 1977 – India (Andaman Is.)
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Singa hamata''
(Clerck, 1757) (
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) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
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Singa hilira''
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
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Singa kansuensis''
Schenkel, 1936 – China
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Singa keyserlingi''
McCook, 1894 – USA, Canada
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Singa lawrencei''
(Lessert, 1930) – Congo
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Singa leucoplagiata''
(Simon
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, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Singa lucina''
( Audouin, 1826) – Mediterranean to Central Asia
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S. l. eburnea''
(Simon, 1929) – Algeria, Tunisia
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Singa myrrhea''
(Simon, 1895) – India
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Singa neta''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Mediterranean, Iraq
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Singa nitidula''
C. L. Koch, 1844 – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus to Central Asia
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Singa perpolita''
(Thorell, 1892) – Singapore
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Singa semiatra''
L. Koch, 1867 – Mediterranean, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Iraq, Iran
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Singa simoniana''
Costa, 1885 – Italy (Sardinia)
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Singa theodori''
(Thorell, 1894) – Indonesia (Java)
See also
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Hypsosinga''
References
Araneidae
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