Ostearius
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyLinyphiidae
Observations recorded4,562
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 145
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Collections
- ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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- Parent taxon
- Linyphiidae
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- Ostearius melanopygius male.jpg
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- Hull, 1911
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Ostearius is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.
==Species== , this genus includes two species: Ostearius melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – South America. Introduced to Canada, St. Helena, Europe, Canary Is. to Turkey and Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand (type species) Ostearius muticus J. C. Gao, Y. Q. Gao & Zhu, 1994 – China
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