Spiracme

Spiracme
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Spiracme Menge, 1876 [1]
Type species
Spiracme striata (L. Koch, 1870)
Species
10, see text

Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus . ^[2] The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila . ^[1] Most recently, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study in 2019 and grouped similar species based on the results: ^[3]

Species

	Ozyptila Xysticus Psammitis Coriarachne Bassaniana Spiracme

As of April 2022 ^[update] it contains ten species: ^[1]

• S. baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
• S. dura (Sørensen, 1898) – USA, Canada, Greenland
• S. keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – USA, Canada
• S. lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia)
• S. mongolica (Schenkel, 1963) – Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
• S. nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Canada
• S. quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China
• S. striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran, China
• S. triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – USA, Canada
• S. vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan

See also

• Xysticus
• List of Thomisidae genera

References

1. "Gen. Spiracme Menge, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2022-04-08.
2. Menge, A. (1876). "Preussische Spinnen. VIII. Fortsetzung" [Prussian spiders. VIII. continued]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3: 423–454.
3. Breitling, R. (2019). "A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 20: 198–206. doi: 10.37828/em.2019.20.16 . S2CID   108977575.

Further reading

• Purgat, P.; Gajdoš, P.; Purkart, A.; et al. (2021). "Walckenaeria stylifrons and Spiracme mongolica (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Thomisidae), two new species to Slovakia". Check List. 17 (6): 1601–1608. doi: 10.15560/17.6.1601 .

• Kiany, N.; Sadeghi, S.; Kiany, M.; et al. (2017). "Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 53: 1–8. doi: 10.5431/aramit5301 .

• Marusik, Y. M. (2015), "Araneae (Spiders)", in Böcher, J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Pape, T.; et al. (eds.), The Greenland Entomofauna , doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019

• Fomichev, A. A. (2015). "New data on the crab spider genus Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 from the Altai, South Siberia (Aranei: Thomisidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 91–97. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.1.05 .