Araeoncus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Linyphiidae
Subfamilia: Erigoninae
Genus: Araeoncus
Species: A. altissimus – A. anguineus – A. caucasicus – A. clavatus – A. clivifrons – A. convexus – A. crassiceps – A. curvatus – A. cypriacus – A. discedens – A. dispar – A. duriusculus – A. etinde – A. femineus – A. galeriformis – A. gertschi – A. hanno – A. humilis – A. impolitus – A. longiusculus – A. macrophthalmus – A. malawiensis – A. martinae – A. mitriformis – A. obtusus – A. picturatus – A. rhodes – A. sicanus – A. subniger – A. tauricus – A. toubkal – A. tuberculatus – A. vaporariorum – A. victorianyanzae – A. viphyensis – A. vorkutensis
Name

Araeoncus Simon, 1884

Type species: Walckenaera humilis John Blackwall, 1841
References
Primary references

Simon, E.L. 1884a. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris: 180-885. Reference page.

Additional references

Tanasevitch, A.V. 2011. On linyphiid spiders from the eastern and central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva. Revue suisse de zoologie 118(1): 49–91. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Araeoncus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2] They closely resemble members of Diplocephalus; both genera have a uniquely shaped of the cephalothorax and a species-specific modification of the tibial apophysis of the pedipalp.[3]
Species

As of May 2019 it contains thirty-nine species:[1]

Araeoncus altissimus Simon, 1884 – France, Italy, Azerbaijan
Araeoncus anguineus (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe
Araeoncus banias Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
Araeoncus caucasicus Tanasevitch, 1987 – Ukraine, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia
Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 – Turkey, Armenia
Araeoncus clivifrons Deltshev, 1987 – Bulgaria
Araeoncus convexus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden, Estonia
Araeoncus crassiceps (Westring, 1861) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
Araeoncus curvatus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden, Estonia
Araeoncus cypriacus Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
Araeoncus discedens (Simon, 1881) – Spain, France, Italy
Araeoncus dispar Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden
Araeoncus duriusculus Caporiacco, 1935 – Karakorum
Araeoncus etinde Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
Araeoncus femineus (Roewer, 1942) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
Araeoncus galeriformis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Russia (Caucasus), Azerbaijan
Araeoncus gertschi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
Araeoncus hanno Simon, 1884 – Algeria
Araeoncus humilis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Japan. Introduced to New Zealand
Araeoncus hyalinus Song & Li, 2010 – China
Araeoncus impolitus Holm, 1962 – Kenya
Araeoncus longispineus Song & Li, 2010 – China
Araeoncus longiusculus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia, mainland)
Araeoncus macrophthalmus Miller, 1970 – Angola
Araeoncus malawiensis Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
Araeoncus martinae Bosmans, 1996 – Morocco, Algeria
Araeoncus mitriformis Tanasevitch, 2008 – Turkey, Iran
Araeoncus obtusus Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
Araeoncus picturatus Holm, 1962 – Tanzania
Araeoncus rhodes Tanasevitch, 2011 – Greece (Rhodes)
Araeoncus sicanus Brignoli, 1979 – Italy (Sicily)
Araeoncus subniger Holm, 1962 – Kenya
Araeoncus tauricus Gnelitsa, 2004 – Bulgaria, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Ukraine
Araeoncus toubkal Bosmans, 1996 – Portugal, Morocco
Araeoncus tuberculatus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden
Araeoncus vaporariorum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – France, Italy
Araeoncus victorianyanzae Berland, 1936 – Kenya, Tanzania
Araeoncus viphyensis Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
Araeoncus vorkutensis Tanasevitch, 1984 – Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan