Misplaced Pages

Erigonops

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Genus of spiders

Erigonops
Conservation status

Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Erigonops
Scharff, 1990
Species: E. littoralis
Binomial name
Erigonops littoralis
(Hewitt, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Erigonopsis littoralis Hewitt, 1915

Erigonops is a monotypic genus in the family Linyphiidae containing only the species Erigonops littoralis, a vulnerable species endemic to South Africa.

Taxonomy and history

The genus Erigonopsis and its sole species Erigonopsis littoralis were described by John Hewitt in 1915 based on several adult specimens collected at Muizenberg in September of 1914. The genus would later be renamed Erigonops by Nickolaj Scharff in 1990, as Erigonopsis was a preoccupied name already used to refer to a genus of flies described by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend in 1912.

Distribution and habitat

Erigonops littoralis is known only from three locations in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lives in the intertidal zone of rocky shores and surrounding habitats along the coast.

See also

References

  1. ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.; Foord, S.; Lotz, L.; Haddad, C.; Lyle, R.; Sethusa, T. (2024). "Erigonops littoralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024: e.T176422452A189438661. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  2. "Gen. Erigonops Scharff, 1990". World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  3. "Erigonops littoralis (Hewitt, 1915)". World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  4. Hewitt, John (1915). "New South African Arachnida". Annals of the Natal Museum. 3: 295–299 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Scharff, Nickolaj (1990). "A catalogue of African Linyphiidae (Araneae)". Steenstrupia. 16 (8): 127.
Taxon identifiers
Erigonops
Erigonops littoralis


This Linyphiidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: