Milonia Thorell, 1890

Mi, Xiaoqi & Li, Shuqiang, 2021, Nine new species of the spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 1072, pp. 49-81 : 49

Genus Milonia Thorell, 1890

Milonia Thorell, 1890: 180.

Type species

Milonia brevipes Thorell, 1890 from Sumatra

Comments

. This is a poorly understood genus; all seven species were described more than 100 years ago. Among them, two are known from juveniles, five are known from a single-sex, and no high-quality illustrations of the genitalia were provided in the published literature. We place the new species in this genus based on the following characters: large chelicerae, cylindrical abdomen in female, relatively stout legs, spinnerets of the female situated at the middle part of the ventral abdomen.