Lygarina

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: Lygarina
Species: L. aurantiaca – L. caracasana – L. finitima – L. nitida – L. silvicola
Name

Lygarina Simon, 1894

Type species: Lygarina nitida Eugène Simon, 1894
Synonyms

Notiothauma Millidge, 1991
Type species: Gongylidiellum aurantiacum Simon, 1905
Millidgefa Özdikmen, 2007 [nomen novum pro Notiothauma Millidge, 1991]

References

Özdikmen, H. 2007: Nomenclatural changes for seven preoccupied spider genera (Arachnida: Araneae). Munis entomology & zoology, 2: 137–142. PDF
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Lygarina is a genus of South American dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.[3]
Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species, found in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela:[1]

Lygarina aurantiaca (Simon, 1905) – Argentina
Lygarina caracasana Simon, 1894 – Venezuela
Lygarina finitima Millidge, 1991 – Peru
Lygarina nitida Simon, 1894 (type) – Brazil
Lygarina silvicola Millidge, 1991 – Brazil