Biology:Asemostera

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Asemostera
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Asemostera
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
A. latithorax
(Keyserling, 1886)
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Asemonetes Millidge, 1991[2]
  • Caleurema Millidge, 1991[2]
  • Ochronetria Millidge, 1991[2]
  • Pelidida Simon, 1898[2]

Asemostera is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3] Originally placed with the family Agelenidae, it was moved to the family Linyphiidae in 1965.[4]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains nine species:[1]

  • Asemostera arcana (Millidge, 1991) – Costa Rica to Venezuela
  • Asemostera daedalus Miller, 2007 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  • Asemostera dianae Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2012 – Peru
  • Asemostera enkidu Miller, 2007 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • Asemostera involuta (Millidge, 1991) – Ecuador
  • Asemostera janetae Miller, 2007 – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
  • Asemostera latithorax (Keyserling, 1886) (type) – Brazil
  • Asemostera pallida (Millidge, 1991) – Peru
  • Asemostera tacuapi Rodrigues, 2007 – Brazil

See also

  • List of Linyphiidae species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Asemostera Simon, 1898. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1177. Retrieved 2019-06-13. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Miller, J. A. (2007). "Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae).". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 162. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x. 
  3. Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 
  4. Roth, V. D. (1965). "Genera erroneously placed in the spider families Agelenidae and Pisauridae (Araneida: Arachnida)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58 (3): 291. doi:10.1093/aesa/58.3.289. 

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