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- Title
Review of Erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae).
- Authors
MILLER, JEREMY A.
- Abstract
The Neotropical genera of the linyphiid spider subfamily Erigoninae are revised at the genus level. Emphasis was placed on genera endemic to the Neotropics and species with dubious relationships to their nominal genera, especially species from the older literature. This work recognizes 50 genera in the Neotropics, of which 39 genera are strictly endemic to the Neotropics, three are represented outside the Neotropics by one species, and eight genera have significant representation both in and beyond the Neotropics. Three additional genera, Ceraticelus Simon, 1884, Idionella Banks, 1893, and Eulaira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933, are represented in northern Mexico and/or the West Indies, but are best classified as having a Nearctic or Holarctic distribution. Species previously placed in the typically northern hemisphere genera Gongylidiellum Simon, 1884, Leptorhoptrum Kulczynski, 1894, Macrargus Dahl, 1886, Minyriolus Simon, 1884 , Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883, Phanetta Keyserling, 1886, and Tmeticus Menge, 1868 are found to be misplaced or nomina dubia; two genera endemic to the Neotropics, Clitistes Simon, 1902 and Zilephus Simon, 1902 are nomina dubia.
- Subjects
LINYPHIIDAE; ERIGONE; SPIDERS; ARACHNIDA; DIPLOCENTRIA
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, Vol 149, p1
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x