Minotauria

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Minotauria | authority = [[Władysław Kulczyński|Kulczyński]], 1903<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''[[Minotauria attemsi|M. attemsi]]'' | type_species_authority = Kulczyński, 1903 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | [[Minotauria attemsi|M. attemsi]]|<small>Kulczyński, 1903</small> – Greece (Crete) | [[Minotauria fagei|M. fagei]]|<small>(Kratochvíl, 1970)</small> – Greece (Crete)}} }}

'''''Minotauria''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Balkans|Balkan]] [[Dysderidae|woodlouse hunting spiders]] that was first described by [[Władysław Kulczyński]] in 1903.<ref name=Kulc1903>{{cite journal| last=Kulczyński| first=W.| year=1903| title=Aranearum et Opilionum species in insula Creta a comite Dre Carolo Attems collectae.| journal=Bulletin International de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie| pages=32–58| volume=1903}}</ref> {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only two species: ''M. attemsi'' and ''M. fagei''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Minotauria Kulczyński, 1903| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-06-02| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/835| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> In 1847, it was argued to be a synonym of ''[[Stalita]]''.<ref name=Cook1965>{{cite journal| last=Cooke| first=J. A. L.| year=1965| title=Spider genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae)| journal=Nature| volume=205| issue=4975| page=1027| doi=10.1038/2051027b0| bibcode=1965Natur.205.1027C}}</ref>

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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]] [[Category:Dysderidae]]