Troxochrus

Troxochrus is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]

Troxochrus
Troxochrus scabriculus (figure 216)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Troxochrus
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
T. scabriculus
(Westring, 1851)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains five species, found only in Europe, Angola, and Israel:[1]

  • Troxochrus apertus Tanasevitch, 2011 – Greece, Turkey
  • Troxochrus laevithorax Miller, 1970 – Angola
  • Troxochrus rugulosus (Westring, 1851) – Sweden
  • Troxochrus scabriculus (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe
  • Troxochrus triangularis Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Troxochrus Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 180–885.


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