Parapelecopsis
Appearance
Parapelecopsis | |
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Parapelecopsis nemoralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Linyphiidae |
Genus: | Parapelecopsis Wunderlich, 1992[1] |
Type species | |
P. nemoralis (Blackwall, 1841)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Parapelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.[2] The spider is found in woodlands in leaf litter, pine needles, moss at ground level and lichen and moss on tree trunks.[citation needed]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Parapelecopsis conimbricensis Bosmans & Crespo, 2010 – Portugal
- Parapelecopsis mediocris (Kulczyński, 1899) – Madeira
- Parapelecopsis nemoralioides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) – Europe
- Parapelecopsis nemoralis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, Georgia
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Parapelecopsis Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 1: 1–619.