Larinioides

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Larinioides
Larinioides cornutus 2006-07-05.jpg
L. cornutus
Furrow Orbweaver - Larinioides patagiatus, Vaseux Lake Provincial Park, Okanagan Falls, British Columbia.jpg
L. patagiatus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Larinioides
Caporiacco, 1934[1]
Type species

Species

7, see text

Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.[2] They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Central Siberia to Far East)
  • Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan
  • (Thorell, 1873) – Western Europe to Central Asia
  • (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Far East), Korea
  • Larinioides patagiatus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
  • Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), China, Korea. Introduced to North America
  • (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. ^ Caporiacco, L. di (1934). "Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino. 44: 1–28.

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