Silometopus elegans is a species of spiders in the family Linyphiidae found in Europe.[1] It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873, as Erigone elegans.[1][2] It was transferred to the genus Silometopus by Eugène Simon in 1884.[1][3]

Silometopus elegans
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Silometopus
Species:
S. elegans
Binomial name
Silometopus elegans
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Erigone elegans O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873
  • Cnephalocotes elegans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Taxon details Silometopus elegans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  2. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of Erigone. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(3, for 1872): 747-769, Pl. LXV-LXVI. [published in April 1873
  3. ^ Simon, E. (1884). Les arachnides de France. Paris 5, 180-885