Emertongone Explained

Emertongone is a monotypic genus of dwarf spiders containing the single species, Emertongone montifer. The genus was created by Lin, Lopardo & Uhl in 2022 for the species formerly known as Oedothorax montifer and first described in 1882 as Lophocarenum montiferum.[1] It has only been found in USA.[2]

References

  1. Lin . Shou-Wang . Lopardo . Lara . Uhl . Gabriele . 2022 . Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae) . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 195 . 2 . 417-584.
  2. 2022 . Gen. Emertongone Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . 3 June 2022 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0.