Silometopus

Silometopus is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.[3]

Silometopus
S. reussi, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Silometopus
Simon, 1926[1]
Type species
S. curtus
(Simon, 1881)
Species

18, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Scleroschaema Hull, 1911[2]

Species

As of August 2021 it contains eighteen species, found in Asia and Europe:[1]

  • Silometopus acutus Holm, 1977 – Sweden, Poland, Russia (Europe)
  • Silometopus ambiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906) – Western and northern Europe
  • Silometopus bonessi Casemir, 1970 – Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia
  • Silometopus braunianus Thaler, 1978 – Alps (Switzerland, Italy, Austria)
  • Silometopus crassipedis Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
  • Silometopus curtus (Simon, 1881) (type) – Spain, France, ?Hungary, ?Malta, ?Egypt
  • Silometopus elegans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Central Asia/Siberia)
  • Silometopus elton Tanasevitch & Grushko, 2020 – Russia (Europe)
  • Silometopus graecus Bosmans, 2020 – Greece
  • Silometopus incurvatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
  • Silometopus minutus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
  • Silometopus nitidithorax (Simon, 1915) – France, Greece
  • Silometopus pectinatus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
  • Silometopus reussi (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
  • Silometopus rosemariae Wunderlich, 1969 – Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
  • Silometopus sachalinensis (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia (Sakhalin), Japan
  • Silometopus tenuispinus Denis, 1950 – France, Andorra
  • Silometopus uralensis Tanasevitch, 1985 – Russia (Urals to Central Asia/Siberia)

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Silometopus Simon, 1926". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  2. Denis, J. (1942). "Notes sur les érigonides. II. A propos de la femelle de Diplocephalus protuberans (O. P. Cambr.)". Revue Française d'Entomologie. 9: 84.
  3. Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 309–532.


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