Silometopoides

Silometopoides is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1990.[3]

Silometopoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Silometopoides Eskov, 1990[1]
Type species
S. pampia (Chamberlin, 1949)
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Orientopus Eskov, 1992[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains nine species, found in Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, and Greenland:[1]

• Silometopoides asiaticus (Eskov, 1995) – Kazakhstan
• Silometopoides koponeni (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia
• Silometopoides mongolensis Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia, Mongolia
• Silometopoides pampia (Chamberlin, 1949) (type) – Russia, Canada, Greenland
• Silometopoides pingrensis (Crosby & Bishop, 1933) – USA
• Silometopoides sibiricus (Eskov, 1989) – Russia
• Silometopoides sphagnicola Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
• Silometopoides tibialis (Heimer, 1987) – Russia, Mongolia
• Silometopoides yodoensis (Oi, 1960) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Silometopoides Eskov, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
2. Marusik, Y. M.; Mikhailov, K. G.; Omelko, M. M. (2015). "Taxonomic notes on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Russian Far East". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 119.
3. Eskov, K. Y. (1990). "New monotypic genera of the spider family Linyphiidae (Aranei) from Siberia: Communication 2". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 69 (1): 43–53.