Asemostera

Asemostera is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3] Originally placed with the family Agelenidae, it was moved to the family Linyphiidae in 1965.[4]

Asemostera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Asemostera
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
A. latithorax
(Keyserling, 1886)
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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

  • Asemostera arcana (Millidge, 1991) – Costa Rica to Venezuela
  • Asemostera daedalus Miller, 2007 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  • Asemostera dianae Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2012 – Peru
  • Asemostera enkidu Miller, 2007 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • Asemostera involuta (Millidge, 1991) – Ecuador
  • Asemostera janetae Miller, 2007 – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
  • Asemostera latithorax (Keyserling, 1886) (type) – Brazil
  • Asemostera pallida (Millidge, 1991) – Peru
  • Asemostera tacuapi Rodrigues, 2007 – Brazil

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Asemostera Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. Miller, J. A. (2007). "Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 149: 162. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x.
  3. Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  4. Roth, V. D. (1965). "Genera erroneously placed in the spider families Agelenidae and Pisauridae (Araneida: Arachnida)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 58 (3): 291. doi:10.1093/aesa/58.3.289.


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