Metopobactrus

Metopobactrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Metopobactrus Simon, 1884
Type species
M. falcifrons Simon, 1884
Species
11, see text

Metopobactrus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.

Species

As of May 2021^[update] it contains eleven species:

• Metopobactrus ascitus (Kulczyński, 1894) – Eastern Europe
• Metopobactrus cavernicola Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Metopobactrus cornis Seo, 2018 – Korea
• Metopobactrus deserticola Loksa, 1981 – Slovakia, Hungary
• Metopobactrus falcifrons Simon, 1884 (type) – France, Spain
• Metopobactrus nadigi Thaler, 1976 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
• Metopobactrus nodicornis Schenkel, 1927 – Switzerland, Austria
• Metopobactrus orbelicus Deltshev, 1985 – Bulgaria
• Metopobactrus pacificus Emerton, 1923 – USA
• Metopobactrus prominulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Canada, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
• Metopobactrus verticalis (Simon, 1881) – France, Corsica, Italy

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