Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.[2] The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila.[1] Most recently, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study in 2019 and grouped similar species based on the results:[3]

Spiracme
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Spiracme
Menge, 1876[1]
Type species
Spiracme striata
(L. Koch, 1870)
Species

10, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains ten species:[1]

  • S. baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
  • S. dura (Sørensen, 1898) – USA, Canada, Greenland
  • S. keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – USA, Canada
  • S. lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia)
  • S. mongolica (Schenkel, 1963) – Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
  • S. nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Canada
  • S. quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China
  • S. striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran, China
  • S. triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – USA, Canada
  • S. vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Spiracme Menge, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. ^ Menge, A. (1876). "Preussische Spinnen. VIII. Fortsetzung" [Prussian spiders. VIII. continued]. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (in German). 3: 423–454.
  3. ^ Breitling, R. (2019). "A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 20: 198–206. doi:10.37828/em.2019.20.16. S2CID 108977575.

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