Biology:Macrargus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Macrargus
Macrargus rufus.jpg
M. rufus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Macrargus
Dahl, 1886[1]
Type species
Theridion rufum
Wider, 1834
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Auletta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882[2]
  • Aulettobia Strand, 1929[2]

Macrargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.[3]

Species

(As of May 2021) it contains five species:[1]

  • Macrargus boreus Holm, 1968 – Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia
  • Macrargus carpenteri (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – Europe
  • Macrargus multesimus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – North America, Europe, Russia (European to Far East), China, Mongolia
  • Macrargus rufus (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe
  • Macrargus sumyensis Gnelitsa & Koponen, 2010 – Ukraine, Belarus

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Macrargus Dahl, 1886. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1416. Retrieved 2019-06-15. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wunderlich, J. (1974). "Ein Beitrag zur Synonymie einheimischer Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae)". Zoologische Beiträge 20: 160. 
  3. Dahl, F. (1886). "Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins". Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 6: 65–102. 

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