Moggridgea
Sign in to saveMoggridgea is a genus of spiders belonging to the tree-dwelling family, Migidae. The genus was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1875 and is named after the naturalist John Traherne Moggridge.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyMigidae
Observations recorded288
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- Family
- Migidae
- Collections
- SAM, ARC-PPRI, SAMA
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Australia, Namibia
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- Moggridgea
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- topic's main category
- Category:Moggridgea
- Commons category
- Moggridgea
- taxon author citation
- O.P.-Cambridge, 1875
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Moggridgea is a genus of spiders belonging to the tree-dwelling family, Migidae. The genus was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1875 and is named after the naturalist John Traherne Moggridge.
The majority of the species of the genus are found in southern Africa and Socotra, with the outlying species Moggridgea rainbowi endemic to Kangaroo Island in Australia.
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