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Zygiometella

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Zygiometella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Zygiometella
Wunderlich, 1995[1]
Species:
Z. perlongipes
Binomial name
Zygiometella perlongipes

Zygiometella is a monotypic genus of Asian long-jawed orb-weavers containing the single species, Zygiometella perlongipes. The species was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1872 under the name "Tetragnatha perlongipes",[2] and it was transferred to its own genus in 1995.[3]

It has been found in Israel and on Cyprus.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Zygiometella Wunderlich, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  2. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). "General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 40 (1): 296.
  3. ^ Wunderlich, J. (1995). "Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Zygiometella der Tetragnathidae: Metinae und eines bisher unbekannten Typs von Stridulations-Organen (Arachnida: Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 4 (1994): 639–642.