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Nigma
Nigma is a genus of araneomorph spiders that occurs with a wide distribution including Eurasia, North America and Northern Africa. They include with N. walckenaeri the biggest member of the family Dictynidae (up to 5mm body length).
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Green Meshweaver
speciesNigma walckenaeri

Bleeding Heart Spider
speciesNigma puella

Nigma flavescens
speciesNigma flavescens

Nigma laeta
speciesNigma laeta
Nigma shiprai
speciesNigma shiprai
Nigma hortensis
speciesNigma hortensis
Nigma tuberosa
speciesNigma tuberosa
Nigma nangquianensis
speciesNigma nangquianensis
Nigma conducens
speciesNigma conducens
Nigma longipes
speciesNigma longipes
Nigma gertschi
speciesNigma gertschi
Nigma albida
speciesNigma albida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Nigma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 84524.