Ostearius melanopygius

Ostearius melanopygius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Ostearius
Species:	O. melanopygius
Binomial name
Ostearius melanopygius (O. P.-Cambridge, 1879)

Ostearius melanopygius is a species of sheetweb spider in the family Linyphiidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} It is found in South America, and within a range from the Canary Islands to Egypt and Turkey, South Africa, China, and New Zealand. It has been introduced into Europe, as well. ^[6]

References

1. "Ostearius melanopygius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
2. "Ostearius melanopygius species details". Catalogue of Life . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
3. "Ostearius melanopygius". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
4. "Ostearius melanopygius Species Information". BugGuide.net . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
5. "Ostearius melanopygius Overview". Encyclopedia of Life . Retrieved 2018-03-31.
6. "NMBE World Spider Catalog, Ostearius melanopygius" . Retrieved 2018-03-31.

Further reading

• Adams, Richard J.; Manolis, Timothy D. (2014). Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520276611.
• Bradley, Richard A. (2012). Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520274884.
• Dean, D.A. (2016). "Catalogue of Texas spiders". ZooKeys (570): 1–703. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.570.6095 . PMC   4829797 . PMID   27103878.
• Foelix, Rainer F. (2010). Biology of Spiders (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0199734825.
• Griswold, Charles E.; Audisio, Tracy; Ledford, Joel M. (2012). "An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family)". ZooKeys (215): 77–102. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.215.3547 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3428790 . PMID   22936872.
• Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN   978-0877192640.
• Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V., eds. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. ISBN   978-0977143900.
• Wheeler, W.C.; Coddington, J.A.; Crowley, L.M.; Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2016). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics . 33 (6): 576–616. doi: 10.1111/cla.12182 . S2CID   35535038.

External links

• Media related to Ostearius melanopygius at Wikimedia Commons