Araeoncus

Araeoncus
A. humilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Araeoncus Simon, 1884
Type species
A. humilis (Blackwall, 1841)
Species
39, see text

Araeoncus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884. They closely resemble members of Diplocephalus; both genera have a uniquely shaped of the cephalothorax and a species-specific modification of the tibial apophysis of the pedipalp.

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains thirty-nine species:

• Araeoncus altissimus Simon, 1884 – France, Italy, Azerbaijan
• Araeoncus anguineus (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe
• Araeoncus banias Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
• Araeoncus caucasicus Tanasevitch, 1987 – Ukraine, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia
• Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 – Turkey, Armenia
• Araeoncus clivifrons Deltshev, 1987 – Bulgaria
• Araeoncus convexus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden, Estonia
• Araeoncus crassiceps (Westring, 1861) – Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)
• Araeoncus curvatus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden, Estonia
• Araeoncus cypriacus Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
• Araeoncus discedens (Simon, 1881) – Spain, France, Italy
• Araeoncus dispar Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden
• Araeoncus duriusculus Caporiacco, 1935 – Karakorum
• Araeoncus etinde Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
• Araeoncus femineus (Roewer, 1942) – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
• Araeoncus galeriformis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Russia (Caucasus), Azerbaijan
• Araeoncus gertschi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Araeoncus hanno Simon, 1884 – Algeria
• Araeoncus humilis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Japan. Introduced to New Zealand
• Araeoncus hyalinus Song & Li, 2010 – China
• Araeoncus impolitus Holm, 1962 – Kenya
• Araeoncus longispineus Song & Li, 2010 – China
• Araeoncus longiusculus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia, mainland)
• Araeoncus macrophthalmus Miller, 1970 – Angola
• Araeoncus malawiensis Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
• Araeoncus martinae Bosmans, 1996 – Morocco, Algeria
• Araeoncus mitriformis Tanasevitch, 2008 – Turkey, Iran
• Araeoncus obtusus Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
• Araeoncus picturatus Holm, 1962 – Tanzania
• Araeoncus rhodes Tanasevitch, 2011 – Greece (Rhodes)
• Araeoncus sicanus Brignoli, 1979 – Italy (Sicily)
• Araeoncus subniger Holm, 1962 – Kenya
• Araeoncus tauricus Gnelitsa, 2004 – Bulgaria, Greece (Crete), Turkey, Ukraine
• Araeoncus toubkal Bosmans, 1996 – Portugal, Morocco
• Araeoncus tuberculatus Tullgren, 1955 – Sweden
• Araeoncus vaporariorum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – France, Italy
• Araeoncus victorianyanzae Berland, 1936 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Araeoncus viphyensis Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
• Araeoncus vorkutensis Tanasevitch, 1984 – Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan

References