Thyreosthenius

Thyreosthenius is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[3] As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in Europe, North America, Russia, East Asia, and the Caucasus: T. biovatus and T. parasiticus.[1]

Thyreosthenius
Thyreosthenius parasiticus figure 214
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Thyreosthenius
Simon, 1884[1]
Type species
T. biovatus
Species
  • T. biovatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Europe
  • T. parasiticus (Westring, 1851) – North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hormathion Crosby & Bishop, 1933[2]

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Thyreosthenius Simon, 1884". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  2. Hackman, W. (1952). "Contributions to the knowledge of Finnish spiders". Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 27: 73.
  3. Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 180–885.
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