Parapelecopsis

Parapelecopsis
Parapelecopsis nemoralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Parapelecopsis Wunderlich, 1992 [1]
Type species
P. nemoralis (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
4, see text

Parapelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992. ^[2] The spider is found in woodlands in leaf litter, pine needles, moss at ground level and lichen and moss on tree trunks.^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains four species: ^[1]

• Parapelecopsis conimbricensis Bosmans & Crespo, 2010 – Portugal
• Parapelecopsis mediocris (Kulczyński, 1899) – Madeira
• Parapelecopsis nemoralioides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) – Europe
• Parapelecopsis nemoralis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, Georgia

References

1. "Gen. Parapelecopsis Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-17.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 1: 1–619.