Biology:Ostearius

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Ostearius
Ostearius melanopygius male.jpg
O. melanopygius, male
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Ostearius
Hull, 1911[1]
Type species
O. melanopygius
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)
Species

2, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Haemathyphantes Caporiacco, 1949[2]

Ostearius is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains two species:[1]

  • Ostearius melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) (type) – South America. Introduced to Europe, Canary Is., Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, China and New Zealand
  • Ostearius muticus Gao, Gao & Zhu, 1994 – China

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Ostearius Hull, 1911. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1515. Retrieved 2019-06-17. 
  2. Helsdingen, P. J. van (1977), "Fam. Linyphiidae", La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV, p. 182 
  3. Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland 3 (3): 573–590. 

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