Macrargus

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: Micronetinae
Genus: Macrargus
Species: M. alpinus – M. boreus – M. carpenteri – M. excavatus – M. multesimus – M. rufus – M. sumyensis
Name

Macrargus Dahl, 1886

Type species: Theridion rufum Wider, 1834
Synonyms

Auletta O. P.-Cambridge, 1882
Aulettobia Strand, 1929

References

Gnelitsa V.A. & S.A. Koponen, 2010: New Species of the Genus Macrargus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Micronetinae) from the North-East of Ukraine and Redescription of Two Related Species. Vestnik Zoologii 44 (4): 291–299.
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Macrargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1886.[3]
Species

As of May 2021 it contains five species:[1]

Macrargus boreus Holm, 1968 – Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia
Macrargus carpenteri (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – Europe
Macrargus multesimus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – North America, Europe, Russia (European to Far East), China, Mongolia
Macrargus rufus (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe
Macrargus sumyensis Gnelitsa & Koponen, 2010 – Ukraine, Belarus