Biology:Gonatium

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Gonatium
Gonatium.rubens.-.lindsey.jpg
G. rubens
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Gonatium
Menge, 1868[1]
Type species
G. rubens
(Blackwall, 1833)
Species

19, see text

Gonatium is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1868.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains nineteen species, found in Algeria, Bulgaria, Canada , China , France , Israel, Italy, Japan , Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia , Spain , Turkey, and the United States :[1]

  • Gonatium arimaense Oi, 1960 – Korea, Japan
  • Gonatium biimpressum Simon, 1884 – France (Corsica), Italy
  • Gonatium cappadocium Millidge, 1981 – Turkey
  • Gonatium crassipalpum Bryant, 1933 – USA, Canada
  • Gonatium dayense Simon, 1884 – Algeria
  • Gonatium ensipotens (Simon, 1881) – Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
  • Gonatium geniculosum Simon, 1918 – France
  • Gonatium hilare (Thorell, 1875) – Central and southern Europe, Azerbaijan?
  • Gonatium japonicum Simon, 1906 – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • Gonatium nemorivagum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Southern Europe
  • Gonatium nipponicum Millidge, 1981 – Russia (Far East), Japan
  • Gonatium occidentale Simon, 1918 – Spain, France, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
  • Gonatium orientale Fage, 1931 – Romania, Bulgaria
  • Gonatium pacificum Eskov, 1989 – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
  • Gonatium paradoxum (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe
  • Gonatium petrunkewitschi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Gonatium rubellum (Blackwall, 1841) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
  • Gonatium rubens (Blackwall, 1833) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Japan
  • Gonatium strugaense Drensky, 1929 – Macedonia

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Gonatium Menge, 1868. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1326. Retrieved 2019-06-14. 
  2. Menge, A. (1868). "Preussische Spinnen. II. Abtheilung.". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig 2: 153–218. 

Wikidata ☰ Q610591 entry