Eresus
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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: | Eresidae |
| Genus: | Eresus Walckenaer, 1805[1] |
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Eresus, also called ladybird spiders,[2] is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805.[3] Members of the genus formerly called Eresus cinnaberinus or Eresus niger are now placed in one of three species: Eresus kollari, Eresus sandaliatus and Eresus moravicus.[2]
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains twenty-one species:[1]
- Eresus albopictus Simon, 1873 – Morocco, Algeria
- Eresus bifasciatus Ermolajev, 1937 – Russia (South Siberia)
- Eresus crassitibialis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
- Eresus granosus Simon, 1895 – Russia (West Siberia), China
- Eresus hermani Kovács, Prazsák, Eichardt, Vári & Gyurkovics, 2015 – Hungary
- Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia
- Eresus k. frontalis Latreille, 1819 – Spain
- Eresus k. ignicomis Simon, 1914 – France (Corsica)
- Eresus k. latefasciatus Simon, 1911 – Algeria
- Eresus k. tricolor Simon, 1873 – France (Corsica)
- Eresus lavrosiae Mcheidze, 1997 – Georgia
- Eresus moravicus Řezáč, 2008 – Austria, Hungary, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Albania
- Eresus pharaonis Walckenaer, 1837 – Egypt
- Eresus robustus Franganillo, 1918 – Spain
- Eresus rotundiceps Simon, 1873 – Ukraine, Turkmenistan
- Eresus ruficapillus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Italy (Sicily)
- Eresus sandaliatus (Martini & Goeze, 1778) – Europe
- Eresus sedilloti Simon, 1881 – Portugal, Spain
- Eresus solitarius Simon, 1873 – Mediterranean
- Eresus walckenaeri Brullé, 1832 – Mediterranean
- Eresus w. moerens C. L. Koch, 1846 – Afghanistan
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Eresus Walckenaer, 1805". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ a b Řezáč, M.; Pekár, S.; Johannesen, J. (2008). "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of central European Eresus species (Araneae: Eresidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 37: 263–287. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00328.x.
- ^ Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions.
External links
- "Eresus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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