Trichopterna

Trichopterna
Trichopterna thorelli (figure 229)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Trichopterna Kulczyński, 1894[1]
Type species
T. cito (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
Species
9, see text

Trichopterna is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:[1]

• Trichopterna cito (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
• Trichopterna cucurbitina (Simon, 1881) – Portugal, Spain, France
• Trichopterna grummi Tanasevitch, 1989 – Central Asia
• Trichopterna krueperi (Simon, 1885) – Greece
• Trichopterna loricata Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna lucasi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Algeria
• Trichopterna macrophthalma Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna rotundiceps Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna seculifera Denis, 1962 – Tanzania

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. "Gen. Trichopterna Kulczyński, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
2. Chyzer, C.; Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. , Pl. I-V. pp. 1–151.