Biology:Larinioides

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Larinioides
Larinioides cornutus 2006-07-05.jpg
L. cornutus
Furrow Orbweaver - Larinioides patagiatus, Vaseux Lake Provincial Park, Okanagan Falls, British Columbia.jpg
L. patagiatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Larinioides
Caporiacco, 1934[1]
Type species
L. suspicax
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
Species

7, see text

Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders commonly known as flying spiders and first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.[2] They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains seven species:[1]

  • Larinioides chabarovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Central Siberia to Far East)
  • Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan
  • Larinioides ixobolus (Thorell, 1873) – Western Europe to Central Asia
  • Larinioides jalimovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Far East), Korea
  • Larinioides patagiatus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
  • Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), China, Korea. Introduced to North America
  • Larinioides suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/341. Retrieved 2019-05-13. 
  2. Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi.". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 1–28. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1303684 entry