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| Mecynargus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. longus (Kulczyński, 1882) | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Mecynargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.[4]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains fifteen species:[1]
- Mecynargus asiaticus Tanasevitch, 1989 – Kyrgyzstan
- Mecynargus borealis (Jackson, 1930) – Canada, Northern Europe, Russia (Siberia)
- Mecynargus brocchus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
- Mecynargus hypnicola Eskov, 1988 – Russia
- Mecynargus longus (Kulczyński, 1882) (type) – Eastern Europe
- Mecynargus minutipalpis Gnelitsa, 2011 – Ukraine, Russia
- Mecynargus minutus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Russia
- Mecynargus monticola (Holm, 1943) – Sweden, Finland, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
- Mecynargus morulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Greenland, Palearctic
- Mecynargus paetulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – USA (Alaska), Canada, Europe, Russia (European to Far East)
- Mecynargus pinipumilis Eskov, 1988 – Russia
- Mecynargus pyrenaeus (Denis, 1950) – France
- Mecynargus sphagnicola (Holm, 1939) – Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
- Mecynargus tundricola Eskov, 1988 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
- Mecynargus tungusicus (Eskov, 1981) – Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Canada
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ↑ Eskov, K. Y. (1988). "Spiders of the genera Mecynargus, Mecynargoides gen. n. and Tubercithorax gen. n. (Aranei, Linyphiidae) in the fauna of the USSR". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 67: 1832.
- ↑ Millidge, A. F. (1977). "The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 4: 17.
- ↑ Chyzer, C.; Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II.