Mecopisthes

Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.[2]

Mecopisthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Mecopisthes
Simon, 1926[1]
Type species
M. silus
Species

18, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eighteen species:[1]

  • Mecopisthes alter Thaler, 1991 – Italy
  • Mecopisthes crassirostris (Simon, 1884) – Portugal, France
  • Mecopisthes daiarum Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
  • Mecopisthes jacquelinae Bosmans, 1993 – Morocco
  • Mecopisthes latinus Millidge, 1978 – Switzerland, Italy
  • Mecopisthes millidgei Wunderlich, 1995 – Italy (Sardinia)
  • Mecopisthes monticola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
  • Mecopisthes nasutus Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (incl. Crete)
  • Mecopisthes nicaeensis (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy
  • Mecopisthes orientalis Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan
  • Mecopisthes paludicola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
  • Mecopisthes peuceticus Caporiacco, 1951 – Italy
  • Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972 – Europe, Israel
  • Mecopisthes pictonicus Denis, 1950 – France
  • Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008 – Switzerland
  • Mecopisthes rhomboidalis Gao, Zhu & Gao, 1993 – China
  • Mecopisthes silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe
  • Mecopisthes tokumotoi Oi, 1964 – Japan

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Mecopisthes Simon, 1926". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie.


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