Spiracme
| Spiracme | |
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| S. striatipes | |
| S. mongolica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Spiracme Menge, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| Spiracme striata (L. Koch, 1870)
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| Species | |
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10, see text | |
Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.[2]
Taxonomy
The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila.[1] In 2019, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study and grouped similar genera based on the results:[3]
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Species
As of January 2026, this genus includes ten species:[1]
- Spiracme baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Spiracme dura (Sørensen, 1898) – Canada, United States, Greenland
- Spiracme keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – Canada, United States
- Spiracme lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia)
- Spiracme lendli (Kulczyński, 1897) – Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Azerbaijan
- Spiracme nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – Canada, United States
- Spiracme quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China
- Spiracme striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia, (Europe), Iran, China
- Spiracme triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – Alaska, Canada, United States
- Spiracme vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Spiracme Menge, 1876". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-27.
- ^ Menge, A. (1876). "Preussische Spinnen. VIII. Fortsetzung" [Prussian spiders. VIII. continued]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3: 423–454.
- ^ Breitling, R. (2019). "A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 20: 198–206. doi:10.37828/em.2019.20.16. S2CID 108977575.
Further reading
- Purgat, P.; Gajdoš, P.; Purkart, A.; et al. (2021). "Walckenaeria stylifrons and Spiracme mongolica (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Thomisidae), two new species to Slovakia". Check List. 17 (6): 1601–1608. doi:10.15560/17.6.1601.
- Kiany, N.; Sadeghi, S.; Kiany, M.; et al. (2017). "Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 53: 1–8. doi:10.5431/aramit5301.
- Marusik, Y. M. (2015), "Araneae (Spiders)", in Böcher, J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Pape, T.; et al. (eds.), The Greenland Entomofauna, doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019
- Fomichev, A. A. (2015). "New data on the crab spider genus Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 from the Altai, South Siberia (Aranei: Thomisidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (1): 91–97. doi:10.15298/arthsel.24.1.05.