Mecynargus

Mecynargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.[4]

Mecynargus
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

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of May 2019 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

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Chyzer, C.; Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II.


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