Micrargus

Micrargus
Micrargus herbigradus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Micrargus Dahl, 1886[1]
Type species
M. herbigradus (Blackwall, 1854)
Species
17, see text
Synonyms[1]
Blaniargus Simon, 1913[2] Nothocyba Simon, 1926[3] Plexisma Hull, 1920[3]

Micrargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.[4]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:[1]

• Micrargus aleuticus Holm, 1960 – USA (Alaska)
• Micrargus alpinus Relys & Weiss, 1997 – Germany, Switzerland, Austria
• Micrargus apertus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – Europe, Japan
• Micrargus cavernicola Wunderlich, 1995 – Japan
• Micrargus cupidon (Simon, 1913) – France
• Micrargus dilutus (Denis, 1948) – France
• Micrargus dissimilis Denis, 1950 – France
• Micrargus fuscipalpis (Denis, 1962) – Uganda
• Micrargus georgescuae Millidge, 1976 – Europe
• Micrargus herbigradus (Blackwall, 1854) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, China, Japan
• Micrargus hokkaidoensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Japan
• Micrargus laudatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881) – Europe
• Micrargus longitarsus (Emerton, 1882) – USA, Canada
• Micrargus nibeoventris (Komatsu, 1942) – Japan
• Micrargus parvus Wunderlich, 2011 – Canary Is.
• Micrargus pervicax (Denis, 1947) – France, possibly Austria
• Micrargus subaequalis (Westring, 1851) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, China

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Micrargus Dahl, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
2. Denis, J. (1950). "Notes sur les érigonides. XVII. Additions et rectifications au tableau de détermination des femelles. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 84: 248.
3. Denis, J. (1949). "Notes sur les érigonides. XVI. Essai sur la détermination des femelles d'érigonides". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 83: 142.
4. Dahl, F. (1886). "Monographie der Erigone-Arten im Thorell' schen. Sinne, nebst anderen Beiträgen zur Spinnenfauna SchleswigHolsteins". Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein. 6: 65–102.