Larinioides

Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.[2] They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".

Larinioides
L. cornutus
L. patagiatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Larinioides
Caporiacco, 1934[1]
Type species
L. suspicax
Species

7, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • Larinioides chabarovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Central Siberia to Far East)
  • Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan
  • Larinioides ixobolus (Thorell, 1873) – Western Europe to Central Asia
  • Larinioides jalimovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Far East), Korea
  • Larinioides patagiatus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
  • Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), China, Korea. Introduced to North America
  • Larinioides suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia

References
  1. "Gen. Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino. 44: 1–28.
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