Silometopus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Silometopus
| image = Silometopus_reussi_(39609967645).jpg
| image_caption = S. reussi, male
| authority = Simon, 1926
| type_species = S. curtus
| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1881)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 18, see text
| synonyms =
- Scleroschaema Hull, 1911{{cite journal| last=Denis| first=J.| year=1942| title=Notes sur les érigonides. II. A propos de la femelle de Diplocephalus protuberans (O. P. Cambr.)| journal=Revue Française d'Entomologie| volume=9| page=84}}
}}
Silometopus is a genus of sheet weavers 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| publisher=Roret, Paris| pages=309–532| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}
Species
{{as of|2021|08}} it contains eighteen species, found in Asia and Europe:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Silometopus Simon, 1926| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1618| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Silometopus acutus Holm, 1977 – Sweden, Poland, Russia (Europe)
- Silometopus ambiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906) – Western and northern Europe
- Silometopus bonessi Casemir, 1970 – Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia
- Silometopus braunianus Thaler, 1978 – Alps (Switzerland, Italy, Austria)
- Silometopus crassipedis Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
- Silometopus curtus (Simon, 1881) (type) – Spain, France, ?Hungary, ?Malta, ?Egypt
- Silometopus elegans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Central Asia/Siberia)
- Silometopus elton Tanasevitch & Grushko, 2020 – Russia (Europe)
- Silometopus graecus Bosmans, 2020 – Greece
- Silometopus incurvatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
- Silometopus minutus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
- Silometopus nitidithorax (Simon, 1915) – France, Greece
- Silometopus pectinatus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
- Silometopus reussi (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
- Silometopus rosemariae Wunderlich, 1969 – Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
- Silometopus sachalinensis (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia (Sakhalin), Japan
- Silometopus tenuispinus Denis, 1950 – France, Andorra
- Silometopus uralensis Tanasevitch, 1985 – Russia (Urals to Central Asia/Siberia)
See also
References
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