Microctenonyx subitaneus

{{Short description|Species of spider}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Microctenonyx subitaneus

| authority = (Pickard-Cambridge, 1875)

| synonyms =

  • Erigone alexandrina
  • Erigone pulicaria
  • Erigone subitanea
  • Walckenaera subitanea
  • Plaesiocraerus pulicarius
  • Tapinocyba subitanea
  • Tapinocyba parisiensis
  • Tapinocyba alexandrina
  • Dactylopisthes pauper
  • Microctenonyx subitaneus
  • Lophocarenum domiciliorum
  • Aulacocyba subitanea
  • Aulacocyba parisiensis
  • Alioranus pauper
  • Alaxchelicera ordinaria
  • Troxochrus subitaneus
  • Gongylidiellum maderianum

}}

Microctenonyx subitaneus is a species of sheet weaver spider.{{Cite web |last=Bern |first=Natural History Museum |title=NMBE - World Spider Catalog |url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/16556 |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=wsc.nmbe.ch |language=en}}

Taxonomy

This species was described as Erigone alexandrina in 1875 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.{{Cite journal |last=Cambridge |first=O.P. |date=1875 |title=XXXI.— Notes and descriptions of some new and rare British spiders |url=https://zenodo.org/records/2064421/files/article.pdf |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |language=en |volume=16 |issue=94 |pages=237–260 |doi=10.1080/00222937508681166 |issn=0374-5481}}

Distribution

This species is known from Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa to Kyrgyzstan. It has been introduced to USA, Chile, Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.

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