Mecynargus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Mecynargus
| authority = Kulczyński, 1894
| type_species = M. longus
| type_species_authority = (Kulczyński, 1882)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 15, see text
| synonyms =
- Conigerella Holm, 1967{{cite journal| last=Eskov| first=K. Y.| year=1988| title=Spiders of the genera Mecynargus, Mecynargoides gen. n. and Tubercithorax gen. n. (Aranei, Linyphiidae) in the fauna of the USSR| journal=Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal| volume=67| page=1832}}
- Rhaebothorax Simon, 1926{{cite journal| last=Millidge| first=A. F.| year=1977| title=The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae)| journal=Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society| volume=4| page=17}}
}}
Mecynargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.{{cite book| last1=Chyzer| first1=C.| last2=Kulczyński| first2=W.| year=1894| title=Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II| author-link2=Władysław_Kulczyński}}
Species
{{as of|2019|05}} it contains fifteen species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894| 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/1429| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Mecynargus asiaticus Tanasevitch, 1989 – Kyrgyzstan
- Mecynargus borealis (Jackson, 1930) – Canada, Northern Europe, Russia (Siberia)
- Mecynargus brocchus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
- Mecynargus hypnicola Eskov, 1988 – Russia
- Mecynargus longus (Kulczyński, 1882) (type) – Eastern Europe
- Mecynargus minutipalpis Gnelitsa, 2011 – Ukraine, Russia
- Mecynargus minutus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Russia
- Mecynargus monticola (Holm, 1943) – Sweden, Finland, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
- Mecynargus morulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Greenland, Palearctic
- Mecynargus paetulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – USA (Alaska), Canada, Europe, Russia (European to Far East)
- Mecynargus pinipumilis Eskov, 1988 – Russia
- Mecynargus pyrenaeus (Denis, 1950) – France
- Mecynargus sphagnicola (Holm, 1939) – Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
- Mecynargus tundricola Eskov, 1988 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
- Mecynargus tungusicus (Eskov, 1981) – Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Canada