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Micrargus

Micrargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.

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Micrargus
Micrargus herbigradus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Micrargus
Dahl, 18861
Type species
M. herbigradus
(Blackwall, 1854)
Species

17, see text

Synonyms1
  • Blaniargus Simon, 19132
  • Nothocyba Simon, 19263
  • Plexisma Hull, 19203

Micrargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.4

Species

As of May 2019 it contains seventeen species:1

  • Micrargus aleuticus Holm, 1960 – USA (Alaska)
  • Micrargus alpinus Relys & Weiss, 1997 – Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  • Micrargus apertus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Japan
  • Micrargus cavernicola Wunderlich, 1995 – Japan
  • Micrargus cupidon (Simon, 1913) – France
  • Micrargus dilutus (Denis, 1948) – France
  • Micrargus dissimilis Denis, 1950 – France
  • Micrargus fuscipalpis (Denis, 1962) – Uganda
  • Micrargus georgescuae Millidge, 1976 – Europe
  • Micrargus herbigradus (Blackwall, 1854) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, China, Japan
  • Micrargus hokkaidoensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Japan
  • Micrargus laudatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881) – Europe
  • Micrargus longitarsus (Emerton, 1882) – USA, Canada
  • Micrargus nibeoventris (Komatsu, 1942) – Japan
  • Micrargus parvus Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
  • Micrargus pervicax (Denis, 1947) – France, possibly Austria
  • Micrargus subaequalis (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, China
References

References

  1. "Gen. Micrargus Dahl, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  2. Denis, J. (1950). "Notes sur les érigonides. XVII. Additions et rectifications au tableau de détermination des femelles. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 84: 248.
  3. Denis, J. (1949). "Notes sur les érigonides. XVI. Essai sur la détermination des femelles d'érigonides". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 83: 142.
  4. Dahl, F. (1886). "Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins". Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein. 6: 65–102.