Thyreosthenius

Genus of spiders

Thyreosthenius
Thyreosthenius parasiticus figure 214
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Thyreosthenius
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
T. biovatus
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)
Species

2, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Hormathion Crosby & Bishop, 1933[2]

Thyreosthenius is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[3]

Species

As of May 2019[update] it contains only two species.[1]

  • Thyreosthenius biovatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far North East)
  • Thyreosthenius parasiticus (Westring, 1851) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East)

See also

  • List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Thyreosthenius Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  2. ^ Hackman, W. (1952). "Contributions to the knowledge of Finnish spiders". Memoranda Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 27: 73.
  3. ^ Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 180–885.
Taxon identifiers
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