Jump to content

Smeringopus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Smeringopus
Smeringopus pallidus female with egg sac.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Subfamily: Holocneminae
Genus: Smeringopus
Simon, 1890[1]
Type species
S. pallidus
(Blackwall, 1858)
Species

55, see text

Smeringopus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1890.[2]

Species

[edit]

As of June 2019 it contains fifty-five species, found in Africa, South America, Asia, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Gen. Smeringopus Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1890). "Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (6): 77–124.