Sinisterigone

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Sinisterigone
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Subfamily: Erigoninae
Genus: Sinisterigone
Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022 [1]
Type species
S. circularis
Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022
Species

3, see text

Sinisterigone is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae. [2]

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Distribution

All described species are endemic to Yunnan Province of China. [2] [1]

Etymology

The genus name is a combination of Latin sinister "left" and related genus Erigone . This refers to the embolus in the left male palp being curved clock-wise. [1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes three species: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Irfan, M.; Zhang, Z. S.; Peng, X. J. (2022). "Survey of Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) spiders from Yunnan, China". Megataxa. 8: 1–292. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.8.1.1 .
  2. 1 2 3 "Gen. Sinisterigone Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022". World Spider Catalog. 2017. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-31.


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