Savignia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. The name honors the French naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny.[4]
Species
As of May 2019 it contains twenty-three species, found in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the United States, on Comoros, in Western Australia, and Alaska:[1]
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Savignia amurensis Eskov, 1991 – Russia
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Savignia badzhalensis Eskov, 1991 – Russia
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Savignia basarukini Eskov, 1988 – Russia
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Savignia birostra (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947) – Russia, China, USA (Alaska)
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Savignia borea Eskov, 1988 – Russia
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Savignia bureensis Tanasevitch & Trilikauskas, 2006 – Russia
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Savignia centrasiatica Eskov, 1991 – Russia
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Savignia erythrocephala (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
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Savignia eskovi Marusik, Koponen & Danilov, 2001 – Russia
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Savignia frontata Blackwall, 1833 (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan
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Savignia fronticornis (Simon, 1884) – Mediterranean
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Savignia harmsi Wunderlich, 1980 – Spain
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Savignia kartalensis Jocqué, 1985 – Comoros
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Savignia kawachiensis Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
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Savignia naniplopi Bosselaers & Henderickx, 2002 – Greece (Crete)
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Savignia producta Holm, 1977 – Scandinavia, Russia
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Savignia pseudofrontata Paik, 1978 – Korea
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Savignia rostellatra Song & Li, 2009 – China
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Savignia saitoi Eskov, 1988 – Russia
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Savignia superstes Thaler, 1984 – France
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Savignia ussurica Eskov, 1988 – Russia
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Savignia yasudai (Saito, 1986) – Japan
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Savignia zero Eskov, 1988 – Russia
See also
References
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^ a b c "Gen. Savignia Blackwall, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
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^ Tanasevitch, A. V. (1985). "A study of spiders (Aranei) of the polar Urals". Trudy Zoologieskogo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR. 139: 56.
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^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Zur Taxonomie europäischer Gattungen der Zwergspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 648.
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^ Blackwall, J. (1833). "Characters of some undescribed genera and species of Araneidae". London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 3 (3): 436–443.
