Tallusia

Tallusia
Tallusia experta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Tallusia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972 [1]
Type species
T. experta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)
Species
5, see text

Tallusia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen & Michael I. Saaristo in 1972. ^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] , it contains five species, found in Asia: ^[1]

• Tallusia bicristata Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972 – Turkey
• Tallusia experta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
• Tallusia forficala (Zhu & Tu, 1986) – China
• Tallusia pindos Thaler, 1997 – Greece
• Tallusia vindobonensis (Kulczyński, 1898) – Central, Eastern Europe

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Tallusia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-24.
2. Lehtinen, P. T.; Saaristo, M. I. (1972). "Tallusia gen. n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae)". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 9: 265–268.