Biology:Mecynidis

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Short description: Genus of spiders

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

8, see text

Mecynidis is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[2] Originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, it was moved to the Linyphiidae in 1964.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains eight species, found in Angola, Kenya, South Africa , and Tanzania:[1]

  • Mecynidis antiqua Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
  • Mecynidis ascia Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania
  • Mecynidis bitumida Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986 – Kenya
  • Mecynidis dentipalpis Simon, 1894 (type) – South Africa
  • Mecynidis laevitarsis Miller, 1970 – Angola
  • Mecynidis muthaiga Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986 – Kenya
  • Mecynidis scutata Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
  • Mecynidis spiralis Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Mecynidis Simon, 1894. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1430. Retrieved 2019-06-15. 
  2. Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 
  3. Levi, H. W. (1964). "Redescription of the type species of the spider genera Artonis, Chorizopes and Mecynidis (Araneae: Araneidae and Linyphiidae)". Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 209. 

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