Metopobactrus Explained

Metopobactrus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[1]

Species

it contains eleven species:^[2]

• Metopobactrus ascitus (Kulczyński, 1894) – Eastern Europe
• Metopobactrus cavernicola Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
• Metopobactrus cornis Seo, 2018 – Korea
• Metopobactrus deserticola Loksa, 1981 – Slovakia, Hungary
• Metopobactrus falcifrons Simon, 1884 (type) – France, Spain
• Metopobactrus nadigi Thaler, 1976 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy
• Metopobactrus nodicornis Schenkel, 1927 – Switzerland, Austria
• Metopobactrus orbelicus Deltshev, 1985 – Bulgaria
• Metopobactrus pacificus Emerton, 1923 – USA
• Metopobactrus prominulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Canada, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
• Metopobactrus verticalis (Simon, 1881) – France, Corsica, Italy

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Metopobactrus Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. 2021-05-30. 2021. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.