Mecopisthes

Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.[2]

Mecopisthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Mecopisthes Simon, 1926[1]
Type species
M. silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
Species
18, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eighteen species:[1]

• Mecopisthes alter Thaler, 1991 – Italy
• Mecopisthes crassirostris (Simon, 1884) – Portugal, France
• Mecopisthes daiarum Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
• Mecopisthes jacquelinae Bosmans, 1993 – Morocco
• Mecopisthes latinus Millidge, 1978 – Switzerland, Italy
• Mecopisthes millidgei Wunderlich, 1995 – Italy (Sardinia)
• Mecopisthes monticola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
• Mecopisthes nasutus Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (incl. Crete)
• Mecopisthes nicaeensis (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy
• Mecopisthes orientalis Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan
• Mecopisthes paludicola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
• Mecopisthes peuceticus Caporiacco, 1951 – Italy
• Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972 – Europe, Israel
• Mecopisthes pictonicus Denis, 1950 – France
• Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008 – Switzerland
• Mecopisthes rhomboidalis Gao, Zhu & Gao, 1993 – China
• Mecopisthes silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe
• Mecopisthes tokumotoi Oi, 1964 – Japan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Mecopisthes Simon, 1926". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie.