Biology:Lygarina

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Lygarina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Lygarina
Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
L. nitida
Simon, 1894
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Millidgefa Özdikmen, 2007[2]
  • Notiothauma Millidge, 1991[2]

Lygarina is a genus of South American dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains five species, found in Argentina , Brazil , Peru, and Venezuela:[1]

  • Lygarina aurantiaca (Simon, 1905) – Argentina
  • Lygarina caracasana Simon, 1894 – Venezuela
  • Lygarina finitima Millidge, 1991 – Peru
  • Lygarina nitida Simon, 1894 (type) – Brazil
  • Lygarina silvicola Millidge, 1991 – Brazil

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Lygarina Simon, 1894. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1414. Retrieved 2019-06-15. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Miller, J. A. (2007). "Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 96. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x. 
  3. Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 

Wikidata ☰ Q963512 entry