Ostearius melanopygius explained

Ostearius melanopygius is a species of sheetweb spider in the family Linyphiidae. It is found in South America, and within a range from the Canary Islands to Egypt and Turkey, South Africa, China, and New Zealand. It has been introduced into Europe, as well.

Further reading

• Book: Adams . Richard J.. Manolis . Timothy D.. 2014. Field Guide to the Spiders of California and the Pacific Coast States (California Natural History Guides). University of California Press. 978-0520276611.
• Book: Bradley . Richard A.. 2012. Common Spiders of North America. University of California Press. 978-0520274884.
• Dean . D.A.. 2016. Catalogue of Texas spiders. ZooKeys. 570. 1–703. 10.3897/zookeys.570.6095. 27103878. 4829797. free.
• Book: Foelix . Rainer F.. 2010. Biology of Spiders. Oxford University Press. 3rd. 978-0199734825.
• Griswold . Charles E.. Audisio . Tracy. Ledford . Joel M.. 2012. An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family). ZooKeys. 215. 77–102. 1313-2989. 10.3897/zookeys.215.3547. 22936872. 3428790. free.
• Book: Jackman . John A.. 2002. A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. 978-0877192640.
• Book: Ubick . D.. Paquin . P.. Cushing . P.E.. Roth . V.. 2005. Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. 978-0977143900.
• Wheeler . W.C.. Coddington . J.A.. Crowley . L.M.. Dimitrov . D.. Goloboff . P.A.. Griswold . C.E.. Hormiga . G.. Prendini . L.. Ramírez . M.J.. Sierwald . P.. Almeida-Silva . L.. Alvarez-Padilla . F.. Arnedo . M.A.. Benavides Silva . L.R.. Benjamin . S.P.. Bond . J.E.. Grismado . C.J.. Hasan . E.. Hedin . M.. Izquierdo . M.A.. Labarque . F.M.. Ledford . J.. Lopardo . L.. Maddison . W.P.. Miller . J.A.. Piacentini . L.N.. Platnick . N.I.. Polotow . D.. Silva-Dávila . D.. Scharff . N.. Szűts . T.. Ubick . D.. Vink . C.J.. Wood . H.M.. Zhang . J.. 4. 2016. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. . 33 . 6 . 576–616. 10.1111/cla.12182. 35535038. free.

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