Zilla (spider)
| Zilla Temporal range:
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| Z. diodia in net, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834[1] |
| Type species | |
| Z. diodia (Walckenaer, 1802)
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| Species | |
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4, see text | |
Zilla is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1834.[2]
Species[edit]
As of April 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Zilla crownia Yin, Xie & Bao, 1996 – China
- Zilla diodia (Walckenaer, 1802) (type) – Europe to Azerbaijan
- Zilla globosa Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – India
- Zilla qinghaiensis Hu, 2001 – China
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Gen. Zilla C. L. Koch, 1834". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1834), "Arachniden", in Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.), Deutschlands Insecten
External links[edit]
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- "Zilla" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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