Lidia (spider)

Lidia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Lidia Saaristo & Marusik, 2004[1]
Type species
L. tarabaevi Saaristo & Marusik, 2004
Species
L. molesta (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan L. tarabaevi Saaristo & Marusik, 2004 – Kazakhstan

Lidia is a genus of Asian dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & Y. M. Marusik in 2004.[2] As of May 2019^[update] it contains only two species, both found in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: L. molesta and L. tarabaevi.[1]

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Lidia Saaristo & Marusik, 2004". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
2. Saaristo, M. I.; Marusik, Y. M. (2004). "Two new petrophilous micronetine genera, Agyphantes gen. n. and Lidia gen. n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Micronetinae), from the eastern Palearctic with descriptions of two new species". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 13: 76–82.