Carorita is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by E. Duffey & P. Merrett in 1963.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only two species: C. limnaea and C. sibirica.[1]

Carorita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Carorita
Duffey & Merrett, 1963[1]
Type species
C. limnaea
(Crosby & Bishop, 1927)
Species
  • C. limnaea (Crosby & Bishop, 1927) – North America, Western, Central and Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
  • C. sibirica Tanasevitch, 2007 – Russia (West Siberia, Far East)

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Carorita Duffey & Merrett, 1963". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. ^ Duffey, E.; Merrett, P. (1963). "Carorita limnaea (Crosby & Bishop), a linyphiid spider new to Britain, from Wybunbury Moss, Cheshire". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6 (13): 573–576. doi:10.1080/00222936308651400.