Trematocephalus

Trematocephalus
Trematocephalus cristatus, male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Trematocephalus Dahl, 1886[1]
Type species
T. cristatus (Wider, 1834)
Species
4, see text

Trematocephalus is a genus of sheet weavers first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.[2]

Species

As of 2017^[update], it contains only four species:[1]

• Trematocephalus cristatus (Wider, 1834) — Palearctic. "A striking red and blue-black money spider with a hole straight through its head."[3]
• Trematocephalus obscurus Denis, 1950 — France
• Trematocephalus simplex Simon, 1894 — Sri Lanka
• Trematocephalus tripunctatus Simon, 1894 — Sri Lanka

References

1. "Linyphiidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
2. 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.
3. Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm (London: Picador, 2018), p. 271.