Biology:Parapelecopsis

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Parapelecopsis
Pelecopsis nemoralis, Trawscoed, North Wales, Dec 2015 (23530278261).jpg
Parapelecopsis nemoralis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Parapelecopsis
Wunderlich, 1992[1]
Type species
P. nemoralis
(Blackwall, 1841)
Species

4, see text

Parapelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.[2] The spider is found in woodlands in leaf litter, pine needles, moss at ground level and lichen and moss on tree trunks.[citation needed]

Species

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

  • Parapelecopsis conimbricensis Bosmans & Crespo, 2010 – Portugal
  • Parapelecopsis mediocris (Kulczyński, 1899) – Madeira
  • Parapelecopsis nemoralioides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) – Europe
  • Parapelecopsis nemoralis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, Georgia

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Parapelecopsis Wunderlich, 1992. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1532. Retrieved 2019-06-17. 
  2. Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1–619. 

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