Centromerus

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Centromerus
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C. sylvaticus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Centromerus
Dahl, 1886 [1]
Type species
C. brevipalpus
(Menge, 1866)
Species

86, see text

Synonyms [1]

Centromerus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by David B. Hirst in 1886. [3]

Species

As of May 2021 it contains eighty-eight species and two subspecies: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Centromerus Dahl, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. Eskov, K. Y.; Marusik, Y. M. (1992). "The spider genus Centromerus (Aranei Linyphiidae) in the fauna of Siberia and the Russian Far East, with an analysis of its distribution". Arthropoda Selecta. 1 (2): 34.
  3. Dahl, F. (1886). "Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins". Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein. 6: 65–102.