Gea (spider)

Gea Temporal range:
File:Gea spinipes - Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.jpg
Gea spinipes Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Gea C. L. Koch, 1843
Type species
G. spinipes C. L. Koch, 1843
Species
13, see text

Gea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1843.

Species

As of April 2019 it contains thirteen species:

• Gea africana Simon, 1895 – Congo
• Gea argiopides Strand, 1911 – New Guinea, Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Gea bituberculata (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Gea eff Levi, 1983 – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
• Gea heptagon (Hentz, 1850) – Pacific Is., Australia. Introduced to USA to Argentina
• Gea infuscata Tullgren, 1910 – East Africa, Angola
• Gea nilotica Simon, 1906 – Sudan
• Gea spinipes C. L. Koch, 1843 – India, China, Taiwan to Indonesia (Borneo)
  • Gea s. nigrifrons Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Gea subarmata Thorell, 1890 – India, Bangladesh to Philippines, New Guinea
• Gea theridioides (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Gea transversovittata Tullgren, 1910 – Congo, East Africa
• Gea zaragosa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – India, Philippines