Horcotes

Horcotes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1933.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species, found in Canada, Russia, and the United States: H. quadricristatus, H. strandi, and H. uncinatus.[1]

Horcotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Horcotes
Crosby & Bishop, 1933[1]
Type species
H. quadricristatus
(Emerton, 1882)
Species
  • H. quadricristatus (Emerton, 1882) – USA
  • H. strandi (Sytshevskaja, 1935) – Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), Canada
  • H. uncinatus Barrows, 1945 – USA

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Horcotes Crosby & Bishop, 1933". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Crosby, C. R.; Bishop, S. C. (1933). "American spiders: Erigonae, males with cephalic pits". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 26: 105–172. doi:10.1093/aesa/26.1.105.


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