Spiracme
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Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.
Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.
Taxonomy
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. In 2019, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study and grouped similar genera based on the results:
Species
, this genus includes ten species: Spiracme baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China Spiracme dura (Sørensen, 1898) – Canada, United States, Greenland Spiracme keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – Canada, United States Spiracme lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia) Spiracme lendli (Kulczyński, 1897) – Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan Spiracme nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – Canada, United States Spiracme quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China Spiracme striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, (Europe), Iran, China Spiracme triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – Alaska, Canada, United States Spiracme vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan
See also
Xysticus List of Thomisidae genera
References
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