Mermessus
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{for|the town of the ancient Troad|Mermessus (Troad)}}
{{Italic title}}
{{Automatic taxobox| taxon=Mermessus| authority=Pickard-Cambridge{{cite web|title=Linyphiidae| website=World Spider Catalog
| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern
| accessdate=2017-03-13
| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1433}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision=81, see text
| type_species = Mermessus dentiger
| type_species_authority = O. P.-Cambridge, 1899
| synonyms =
- Eperigone Crosby & Bishop, 1928
- Parerigone Berland, 1932 (preocc.)
- Anerigone Berland, 1932 (nom. nov. pro Parerigone Berland, 1932)
- Sinoria Bishop & Crosby, 1938
- Aitutakia Marples, 1960
}}
Mermessus is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae. It was first described in 1899 by O. Pickard-Cambridge. {{As of|2017}}, it contains 81 species.
Species list
Mermessus comprises the following species:
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- Mermessus agressus (Gertsch & Davis, 1937) – US, Mexico
- Mermessus albulus (Zorsch & Crosby, 1934) – US
- Mermessus annamae (Gertsch & Davis, 1937) – Mexico
- Mermessus antraeus (Crosby, 1926) – US, Mexico
- Mermessus augustae (Crosby & Bishop, 1933) – US
- Mermessus augustalis (Crosby & Bishop, 1933) – US, Canada
- Mermessus avius (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus brevidentatus (Emerton, 1909) – US
- Mermessus bryantae (Ivie & Barrows, 1935) – North America, Cuba, Venezuela, Azores
- Mermessus caelebs (Millidge, 1987) – Panama, Venezuela
- Mermessus coahuilanus (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) – US, Mexico
- Mermessus cognatus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Mermessus colimus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus comes (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus conexus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus conjunctus (Millidge, 1991) – Brazil
- Mermessus contortus (Emerton, 1882) – US
- Mermessus denticulatus (Banks, 1898) – US to Colombia (Europe, North Africa, introduced)
- Mermessus dentiger O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 – US to Guatemala, Caribbean
- Mermessus dentimandibulatus (Keyserling, 1886) – Colombia, Peru
- Mermessus dominicus (Millidge, 1987) – Dominica
- Mermessus dopainus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Mexico
- Mermessus entomologicus (Emerton, 1911) – US, Canada
- Mermessus estrellae (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus facetus (Millidge, 1987) – Costa Rica
- Mermessus floridus (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus formosus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus fractus (Millidge, 1987) – Costa Rica
- Mermessus fradeorum (Berland, 1932) – Cosmopolitan
- Mermessus fuscus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus hebes (Millidge, 1991) – Venezuela
- Mermessus holdus (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939) – US, Canada
- Mermessus hospita (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus ignobilis (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus imago (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus index (Emerton, 1914) – US, Canada
- Mermessus indicabilis (Crosby & Bishop, 1928) – US
- Mermessus inornatus (Ivie & Barrows, 1935) – US
- Mermessus insulsus (Millidge, 1991) – Peru
- Mermessus jona (Bishop & Crosby, 1938) – US, Canada
- Mermessus leoninus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus libanus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus lindrothi (Holm, 1960) – Alaska
- Mermessus maculatus (Banks, 1892) – Russia, Canada to Guatemala
- Mermessus maderus (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus major (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus mediocris (Millidge, 1987) – US, Canada
- Mermessus medius (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus merus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus mniarus (Crosby & Bishop, 1928) – US
- Mermessus modicus (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus montanus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus monticola (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus moratus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus naniwaensis (Oi, 1960) – China, Japan
- Mermessus nigrus (Millidge, 1991) – Colombia
- Mermessus obscurus (Millidge, 1991) – Colombia
- Mermessus orbus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus ornatus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus paludosus (Millidge, 1987) – Canada
- Mermessus paulus (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus perplexus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus persimilis (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus pinicola (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus probus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus proximus (Keyserling, 1886) – Peru
- Mermessus rapidulus (Bishop & Crosby, 1938) – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- Mermessus singularis (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus socius (Chamberlin, 1949) – US
- Mermessus sodalis (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus solitus (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus solus (Millidge, 1987) – Mexico
- Mermessus subantillanus (Millidge, 1987) – Guadeloupe
- Mermessus taibo (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933) – US, Canada
- Mermessus tenuipalpis (Emerton, 1911) – US
- Mermessus tepejicanus (Gertsch & Davis, 1937) – Mexico
- Mermessus tibialis (Millidge, 1987) – US
- Mermessus tlaxcalanus (Gertsch & Davis, 1937) – Mexico
- Mermessus tridentatus (Emerton, 1882) – US, Canada, Puerto Rico
- Mermessus trilobatus (Emerton, 1882) – Holarctic
- Mermessus undulatus (Emerton, 1914) – US, Canada
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See also
References
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External links
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Mermessus|Mermessus}}
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Category:Spiders of North America