Malthonica

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Malthonica | authority = Simon, 1898<ref name=NMBE /> | subdivision = 4, see text | type_species = ''M. lusitanica'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1898 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Malthonica''''' is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.<ref name=Simo1898>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1898| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}</ref> Many of its species were transferred to ''Aterigena'' and ''Tegenaria'' in 2010.<ref name=Bolz10>{{cite journal |last1=Bolzern |first1=Angelo |last2=Hänggi |first2=Ambros |last3=Burckhardt |first3=Daniel |title=''Aterigena'', a new genus of funnel-web spider, shedding some light on the ''Tegenaria-Malthonica'' problem (Araneae: Agelenidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |date=2010 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=162–182 |doi=10.1636/A09-78.1 |s2cid=83969637 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229209 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2024|05}} it contains four species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Malthonica Simon, 1898| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-05-07| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/40}}</ref>

*''Malthonica africana'' Simon & Fage, 1922 – East Africa *''Malthonica daedali'' Brignoli, 1980 – Greece (Crete) *''Malthonica lusitanica'' Simon, 1898 – Portugal to France *''Malthonica oceanica'' Barrientos & Cardoso, 2007 – Portugal

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==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}

Category:Agelenidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon