Scutpelecopsis

Scutpelecopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Scutpelecopsis ; Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009
Type species
	S. wunderlichi ; Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009
Species
	5, see text

Last updated January 25, 2026

Scutpelecopsis is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Y. M. Marusik & V. A. Gnelitsa in 2009.^[2]

Species

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

Scutpelecopsis krausi (Wunderlich, 1980) – SE Europe (Balkans) to Armenia
Scutpelecopsis loricata Duma & Tanasevitch, 2011 – Romania
Scutpelecopsis media Wunderlich, 2011 – Turkey
Scutpelecopsis procer Wunderlich, 2011 – Iran
Scutpelecopsis wunderlichi Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009 (type) – Georgia

References

1 2 "Gen. Scutpelecopsis Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.
↑ Marusik, Y. M.; Gnelitsa, V. A. (2009). "Description of a new genus of spiders from the eastern Mediterranean and the most armored erigonid species from the western Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 18: 57–68.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 "Gen. Scutpelecopsis Marusik & Gnelitsa, 2009". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.

[Maru2009-2] Marusik, Y. M.; Gnelitsa, V. A. (2009). "Description of a new genus of spiders from the eastern Mediterranean and the most armored erigonid species from the western Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 18: 57–68.

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