Larinioides
Genus of spiders
| Larinioides | |
|---|---|
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| L. cornutus | |
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| L. patagiatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) | |
| Species | |
| 7, see text | |
Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders commonly known as flying spiders and first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.[2] They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- Larinioides chabarovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Central Siberia to Far East)
- Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan
- Larinioides ixobolus (Thorell, 1873) – Western Europe to Central Asia
- Larinioides jalimovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Far East), Korea
- Larinioides patagiatus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
- Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), China, Korea. Introduced to North America
- Larinioides suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino. 44: 1–28.
External links
- Nieuwenhuys, Ed (17 November 2013). "Orb web spiders or orb-weavers". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
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