Zora (spider)

Zora is a genus of spiders in the family Miturgidae,[1] consisting of small to medium entelegyne, ecribellate spiders. They can be identified as they have two claws with claw tufts, distinct longitudinal bands on the cephalothorax, 4-2-2 arrangement of the eight eyes and long overlapping spines on the first two tibiae and metatarsi. Their abdomens show distinct colour patterns which may be useful in identification to species. There are 17 species in the genus which have a Holarctic distribution, mostly in Europe and the Middle East but with two species in North America.[2] The type species is Zora spinimana.[1]

Zora
Zora silvestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Miturgidae
Genus: Zora
C. L. Koch, 1847[1]
Species[1]

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Identification

Zora spiders have a narrow anterior carapace with a characteristic dark compact eye group with both of the rows of eyes strongly recurved. There are paired ventral spines on legs I and II. All of the species are similar in general appearance, their general colour is yellow with a wide brown band extending back from each posterior lateral eye. The prosoma has a thin Y-shaped brown marking with spots and irregular lines along its flanks.[3]

Species

The following species are listed as accepted in the World Spider Catalog as of September 2016.[1]

References
  1. "Gen. Zora C. L. Koch, 1847". World Spider catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  2. Corey, David T.; Mott, Daniel J. (1991). "A REVISION OF THE GENUS ZORA (ARANEAE, ZORIDAE) IN NORTH AMERICA" (PDF). The Journal of Arachnology. 19: 55–61.
  3. "Zora spinimana (Sundevall, 1833)". University of Copenhagen/Natural History Museum, Aarhus. Retrieved 25 September 2016.


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