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Mecynidis is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. Originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, it was moved to the Linyphiidae in 1964.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyLinyphiidae
Observations recorded434

Mecynidis Simon, 1894, Histoire Naturelle des Araignees, 1: 507. Type species by original designation and monotopy: M. dentipalpis Simon.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
27
Family
Linyphiidae
Collections
MCZ, ARC-PPRI, USNM, ZMUC
Recorded in
Kenya, Gabon, Southern Africa, South Africa, Tanzania

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Linyphiidae
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taxon name
Mecynidis
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Mecynidis
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Encyclopedic overview

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Mecynidis is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894. Originally placed with the tangle-web spiders, it was moved to the Linyphiidae in 1964.

Its species are found in Angola, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mecynidis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.