Pachygnatha zappa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Genus
- Pachygnatha
- Species
- Pachygnatha zappa
- Scientific Name
- Pachygnatha zappa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pachygnatha zappa
Pachygnatha zappa is a spider named after musician Frank Zappa because of its unique markings which resemble his famous moustache.
Belgian biologists Robert Bosmans and Jan Bosselaers, from the Rijksuniversiteit Gent organized two expeditions to Mount Cameroon and neighbouring ranges. In 1994 (in Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 23, No. 4, pages 325–352) they introduced the species they named Pachygnatha zappa.
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Sibling Taxa
- Pachygnatha amurensis
- Pachygnatha atromarginata
- Pachygnatha autumnalis
- Pachygnatha bispiralis
- Pachygnatha bonneti
- Pachygnatha brevis
- Pachygnatha calusa
- Pachygnatha clercki
- Pachygnatha clerckoides
- Pachygnatha degeeri
- Pachygnatha dorothea
- Pachygnatha fengzhen
- Pachygnatha furcillata
- Pachygnatha goedeli
- Pachygnatha hexatracheata
- Pachygnatha intermedia
- Pachygnatha jansseni
- Pachygnatha kiwuana
- Pachygnatha leleupi
- Pachygnatha listeri
- Pachygnatha longipes
- Pachygnatha monticola
- Pachygnatha mucronata
- Pachygnatha ochongipina
- Pachygnatha okuensis
- Pachygnatha opdeweerdtae
- Pachygnatha palmquisti
- Pachygnatha procincta
- Pachygnatha quadrimaculata
- Pachygnatha rotunda
- Pachygnatha ruanda
- Pachygnatha simoni
- Pachygnatha sundevalli
- Pachygnatha tenera
- Pachygnatha terilis
- Pachygnatha tristriata
- Pachygnatha tullgreni
- Pachygnatha ventricosa
- Pachygnatha vorax
- Pachygnatha xanthostoma
- Pachygnatha zappa
- Pachygnatha zhui