Sintula
| Sintula | |
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| female S. retroversus in Italy | |
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| male S. retroversus in Italy | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Sintula Simon, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| S. corniger (Blackwall, 1856) | |
| Species | |
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19, see text | |
Sintula is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.
Distribution
Spiders in this genus are found in Europe, Russia, and North Africa.
Species
As of January 2026[update], this genus includes nineteen species:
- Sintula adullam Tanasevitch, 2025 – Israel
- Sintula corniger (Blackwall, 1856) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran
- Sintula cretaensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (Crete)
- Sintula cristatus Wunderlich, 1995 – Turkey
- Sintula diceros Simon, 1926 – France, Spain
- Sintula furcifer (Simon, 1912) – Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria
- Sintula iberica Bosmans, 2010 – Portugal, Spain
- Sintula karineae Lecigne, 2021 – Turkey, Israel
- Sintula matta Tanasevitch, 2025 – Israel
- Sintula orientalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
- Sintula oseticus Tanasevitch, 1990 – Russia (Caucasus)
- Sintula pecten Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Islands
- Sintula penicilliger (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
- Sintula pseudocorniger Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria, Tunisia
- Sintula retroversus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Spain to Ukraine and Greece, Turkey, Caucasus, Israel
- Sintula roeweri Kratochvíl, 1935 – Montenegro
- Sintula solitarius Gnelitsa, 2012 – Ukraine
- Sintula spiniger (Balogh, 1935) – Austria to Greece and Russia (Europe)
- Sintula subterminalis Bosmans, 1991 – Algeria
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Gen. Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 180–885.
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