Agalenatea

Agalenatea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1951.^[2] As of April 2019^[update] it contains only two species: A. redii with a palearctic distribution and A. liriope, found in Ethiopia and Yemen.^[1]

Agalenatea
Agalenatea redii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Agalenatea Archer, 1951[1]
Type species
A. redii (Scopoli, 1763)
Species
A. liriope (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia, Yemen A. redii (Scopoli, 1763) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Iran, Central Asia, China