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Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyLinyphiidae
Observations recorded1,147

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Mecopisthes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.

==Species== it contains eighteen species: Mecopisthes alter Thaler, 1991 – Italy Mecopisthes crassirostris (Simon, 1884) – Portugal, France Mecopisthes daiarum Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria Mecopisthes jacquelinae Bosmans, 1993 – Morocco Mecopisthes latinus Millidge, 1978 – Switzerland, Italy Mecopisthes millidgei Wunderlich, 1995 – Italy (Sardinia) Mecopisthes monticola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria Mecopisthes nasutus Wunderlich, 1995 – Greece (incl. Crete) Mecopisthes nicaeensis (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy Mecopisthes orientalis Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Turkmenistan Mecopisthes paludicola Bosmans, 1993 – Algeria Mecopisthes peuceticus Caporiacco, 1951 – Italy Mecopisthes peusi Wunderlich, 1972 – Europe, Israel Mecopisthes pictonicus Denis, 1950 – France Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008 – Switzerland Mecopisthes rhomboidalis Gao, Zhu & Gao, 1993 – China Mecopisthes silus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe Mecopisthes tokumotoi Oi, 1964 – Japan

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