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]

Savignia
Savignia frontata (Bl.) figure 232
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Savignia
Blackwall, 1833[1]
Type species
S. frontata
Blackwall, 1833
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Species

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Tanasevitch, A. V. (1985). "A study of spiders (Aranei) of the polar Urals". Trudy Zoologieskogo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR. 139: 56.
  3. ^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Zur Taxonomie europäischer Gattungen der Zwergspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 648.
  4. ^ 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.