Ostearius

Genus of spiders

Ostearius
O. melanopygius, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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[update] 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

  • List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Ostearius Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Ostearius
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