Mecopisthes
| Mecopisthes | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Mecopisthes Simon, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
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| Species | |
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18, see text | |
Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.[2]
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains eighteen species:[1]
- Mecopisthes alter Thaler, 1991 – Italy
- Mecopisthes crassirostris (Simon, 1884) – Portugal, France
- Mecopisthes daiarum Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes jacquelinae Bosmans, 1993 – Morocco
- Mecopisthes latinus Millidge, 1978 – Switzerland, Italy
- Mecopisthes millidgei Wunderlich, 1995 – Italy (Sardinia)
- Mecopisthes monticola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes nasutus Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (incl. Crete)
- Mecopisthes nicaeensis (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy
- Mecopisthes orientalis Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan
- Mecopisthes paludicola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes peuceticus Caporiacco, 1951 – Italy
- Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972 – Europe, Israel
- Mecopisthes pictonicus Denis, 1950 – France
- Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008 – Switzerland
- Mecopisthes rhomboidalis Gao, Zhu & Gao, 1993 – China
- Mecopisthes silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe
- Mecopisthes tokumotoi Oi, 1964 – Japan
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Mecopisthes Simon, 1926". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ^ Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie.