Silometopoides

Silometopoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Silometopoides ; Eskov, 1990
Type species
	S. pampia ; (Chamberlin, 1949)
Species
	9, see text
Synonyms
	OrientopusEskov, 1992;

Last updated January 25, 2026

Silometopoides is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1990.^[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains nine species, found in Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, and Greenland:^[1]

Silometopoides asiaticus (Eskov, 1995) – Kazakhstan
Silometopoides koponeni (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia
Silometopoides mongolensis Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia, Mongolia
Silometopoides pampia (Chamberlin, 1949) (type) – Russia, Canada, Greenland
Silometopoides pingrensis (Crosby & Bishop, 1933) – USA
Silometopoides sibiricus (Eskov, 1989) – Russia
Silometopoides sphagnicola Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
Silometopoides tibialis (Heimer, 1987) – Russia, Mongolia
Silometopoides yodoensis (Oi, 1960) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Silometopoides Eskov, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.
↑ Marusik, Y. M.; Mikhailov, K. G.; Omelko, M. M. (2015). "Taxonomic notes on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Russian Far East". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 119. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.1.09 .
↑ Eskov, K. Y. (1990). "New monotypic genera of the spider family Linyphiidae (Aranei) from Siberia: Communication 2". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 69 (1): 43–53.

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[wsc-1] 1 2 3 "Gen. Silometopoides Eskov, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-23.

[Maru2015-2] Marusik, Y. M.; Mikhailov, K. G.; Omelko, M. M. (2015). "Taxonomic notes on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Russian Far East". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 119. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.1.09 .

[Esko1990-3] Eskov, K. Y. (1990). "New monotypic genera of the spider family Linyphiidae (Aranei) from Siberia: Communication 2". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 69 (1): 43–53.

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