Asiabadus is a monotypic genus of Asian ground spiders containing the single species, Asiabadus asiaticus. It was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1961,[2] and has only been found in Central Asia and Afghanistan.[1] It is named after Asiabad, a province in Afghanistan where they were first found, but it has been misspelled as "Asiadab" in generic and species headings.[2]
| Asiabadus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gnaphosidae |
| Genus: | Asiabadus Roewer, 1961[1] |
| Species: | A. asiaticus
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| Binomial name | |
| Asiabadus asiaticus (Charitonov, 1946)
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References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Asiabadus Roewer, 1961". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ a b Roewer, C. F. (1961). "Araneae Dionycha aus Afghanistan I.". Acta Universitatis Lundensis (N.F.) (2). 58 (3): 1–33.