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Pelecopsis

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Pelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1864.

Species

GENUS

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

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
50
Family
Linyphiidae
Collections
NMSU, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS (UAM), ARC-PPRI
Recorded in
United States, Canada, South Africa

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Linyphiidae
Image
Pelecopsis nemoralis, Trawscoed, North Wales, Dec 2015 2 (22985630863).jpg
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taxon name
Pelecopsis
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Pelecopsis
Commons category
Pelecopsis
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Encyclopedic overview

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Pelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1864.

Most species are found in Africa, Europe and Asia, with endemic to North America.

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