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| Spiracme | |
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| S. striatipes | |
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| S. mongolica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Spiracme Menge, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| Spiracme striata (L. Koch, 1870) | |
| Species | |
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Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila.[1] In 2019, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study and grouped similar genera based on the results:[3]
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Species
[edit]As of January 2026[update], this genus includes ten species:[1]
- Spiracme baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Spiracme dura (Sørensen, 1898) – Canada, United States, Greenland
- Spiracme keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – Canada, United States
- Spiracme lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia)
- Spiracme lendli (Kulczyński, 1897) – Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan
- Spiracme nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – Canada, United States
- Spiracme quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China
- Spiracme striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, (Europe), Iran, China
- Spiracme triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – Alaska, Canada, United States
- Spiracme vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Spiracme Menge, 1876". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-27.
- ↑ Menge, A. (1876). "Preussische Spinnen. VIII. Fortsetzung" [Prussian spiders. VIII. continued]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3: 423–454.
- ↑ Breitling, R. (2019). "A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 20: 198–206. doi:10.37828/em.2019.20.16. S2CID 108977575.
Further reading
[edit]- Purgat, P.; Gajdoš, P.; Purkart, A.; et al. (2021). "Walckenaeria stylifrons and Spiracme mongolica (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Thomisidae), two new species to Slovakia". Check List. 17 (6): 1601–1608. doi:10.15560/17.6.1601.
- Kiany, N.; Sadeghi, S.; Kiany, M.; et al. (2017). "Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 53: 1–8. doi:10.5431/aramit5301.
- Marusik, Y. M. (2015), "Araneae (Spiders)", in Böcher, J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Pape, T.; et al. (eds.), The Greenland Entomofauna, doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019
- Fomichev, A. A. (2015). "New data on the crab spider genus Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 from the Altai, South Siberia (Aranei: Thomisidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 91–97. doi:10.15298/arthsel.24.1.05.
