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| Langona | |
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| L. hirsuta | |
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| L. warchalowskii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Tribe: | Aelurillini |
| Genus: | Langona Simon, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Attus redii Audouin, 1826 | |
| Species | |
Langona is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus.[1] In 2015, it was listed in the subtribe Aelurillina. The subtribe is allocated to the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia.[2] In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.[3]
Species
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L. davidi
L. hirsuta
L. tartarica
L. warchalowskii
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 45 species:[4]
- Langona albolinea Caleb & Mathai, 2015 – India
- Langona alfensis Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia
- Langona aperta (Denis, 1958) – Iran, Afghanistan, India
- Langona atrata Peng & Li, 2008 – China
- Langona avara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Zimbabwe
- Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
- Langona bhutanica Prószyński, 1978 – Bhutan, China
- Langona biangula Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
- Langona bisecta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Langona bitumorata Próchniewicz & Hęciak, 1994 – Tanzania
- Langona bristowei Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Uganda
- Langona davidi (Caleb, Mungkung & Mathai, 2015) – India
- Langona fusca Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe
- Langona goaensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Langona hirsuta Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
- Langona hongkong Song, Xie, Zhu & Wu, 1997 – China
- Langona improcera Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
- Langona kurracheensis Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Pakistan
- Langona lotzi Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa, Lesotho
- Langona maculata Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
- Langona magna Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
- Langona maindroni (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
- Langona mallezi (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
- Langona manicata Simon, 1901 – South Africa
- Langona mediocris Wesołowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe
- Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Langona oreni Prószyński, 2000 – Israel
- Langona pallida Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan
- Langona pallidula Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Iran, Turkmenistan
- Langona pattayensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 – Thailand
- Langona pecten Próchniewicz & Hęciak, 1994 – Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Langona pilosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
- Langona redii (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel, Syria, Yemen, Iran (type species)
- Langona sabulosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia
- Langona senegalensis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
- Langona simoni Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Pakistan
- Langona spiralis Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
- Langona tartarica (Charitonov, 1946) – Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Yemen?
- Langona tigrina (Simon, 1886) – India
- Langona tortuosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
- Langona trifoveolata (Lessert, 1927) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, DR Congo, Mozambique
- Langona ukualuthensis Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
- Langona vitiosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
- Langona warchalowskii Wesołowska, 2007 – South Africa
- Langona zimbabwensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Zimbabwe
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 275
- ↑ Maddison 2015, p. 279.
- ↑ Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
- ↑ "Gen. Langona Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
References
[edit]- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
- Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society.
- Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
