Mecopisthes
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Mecopisthes
| authority = Simon, 1926
| type_species = M. silus
| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 18, see text
}}
Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1926| title=Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}
Species
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains eighteen species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Mecopisthes Simon, 1926| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1427| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Mecopisthes alter Thaler, 1991 – Italy
- Mecopisthes crassirostris (Simon, 1884) – Portugal, France
- Mecopisthes daiarum Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes jacquelinae Bosmans, 1993 – Morocco
- Mecopisthes latinus Millidge, 1978 – Switzerland, Italy
- Mecopisthes millidgei Wunderlich, 1995 – Italy (Sardinia)
- Mecopisthes monticola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes nasutus Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (incl. Crete)
- Mecopisthes nicaeensis (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy
- Mecopisthes orientalis Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan
- Mecopisthes paludicola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria
- Mecopisthes peuceticus Caporiacco, 1951 – Italy
- Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972 – Europe, Israel
- Mecopisthes pictonicus Denis, 1950 – France
- Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008 – Switzerland
- Mecopisthes rhomboidalis Gao, Zhu & Gao, 1993 – China
- Mecopisthes silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe
- Mecopisthes tokumotoi Oi, 1964 – Japan
See also
References
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