Kikimora palustris

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Kikimora palustris
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Kikimora
Eskov, 1988 [1]
Species:
K. palustris
Binomial name
Kikimora palustris
Eskov, 1988

Kikimora is a monotypic genus of dwarf spiders containing the single species, Kikimora palustris. It was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1988, [2] and has only been found in Finland, Norway, and Russia. [1]

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Derivation of name

The Russian swamp-goblin Kikimora after whom is named the spider Kikimora palustris. Art work by symbolist painter Vasiliy Ivanovich Denisov (1862-1922). Kikimora im Sumpf by V.I. Denisov (priv.coll).jpg
The Russian swamp-goblin Kikimora after whom is named the spider Kikimora palustris. Art work by symbolist painter Vasiliy Ivanovich Denisov (1862-1922).

When Eskov discovered this genus of sheetweaver spiders he used for it the name of the Russian bogeywoman (and personification of nightmare and sleep paralysis) Kikimora - specifically the type of Kikimora imagined to inhabit swamps (in further reference to the specific name palustris "of the marsh") and to be married to the forest-spirit Leshy. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Kikimora Eskov, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. ↑ Eskov, K. Y. (1988). "Seven new monotypic genera of spiders of the family Linyphiidae (Aranei) from Siberia". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 67: 678–690.
  3. ↑ Sokolov, Yuriy M. (1971) [1950]. Russian Folklore. Translated by Smith, Catherine R. Detroit: Folklore Associates. pp. 26–404. ISBN   978-0-8103-5020-5.


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