Simitidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.[2] As of June 2020[update] it contains three species, native to Africa, Asia and Europe, and introduced to Canada: S. agaricographum, S. lacuna, and S. simile.[1]
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| Simitidion simile figure 119 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. simile (C. L. Koch, 1836)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 1: 1–619.
Further reading
edit- Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 2: 1–522.
- Wunderlich, J. (2008). "On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 5: 819–859.
- Levy, G. (1998), "Araneae: Theridiidae", Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III
- Knoflach, B. (1996). "Das Männchen von Simitidion agaricographum (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 83: 149–156.
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