Caracladus

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: Caracladus
Species: C. avicula – C. daguanshanensis – C. leberti – C. montanus – C. tsurusakii – C. zamoniensis
Name

Caracladus Simon, 1884

Type species: Caracladus avicula Simon, 1884, by monotypy
References

Simon, E. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 5: 180–885. [590]
Frick, H.; Muff, P. 2009: Revision of the genus Caracladus with the description of Caracladus zamoniensis spec. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zootaxa, 1982: 1–37. Abstract & excerpt
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Caracladus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.[2]
Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:[1]

Caracladus avicula (L. Koch, 1869) (type) – France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy
Caracladus leberti (Roewer, 1942) – Western, Central Europe
Caracladus montanus Sha & Zhu, 1994 – China
Caracladus tsurusakii Saito, 1988 – Japan
Caracladus zamoniensis Frick & Muff, 2009 – France, Switzerland, Austria