Saaristoa Explained

Saaristoa is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1978.^[1]

Species

it contains five species, found in Europe, the United States, and Japan:^[2]

• Saaristoa abnormis (Blackwall, 1841) (type) – Europe
• Saaristoa ebinoensis (Oi, 1979) – Japan
• Saaristoa firma (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906) – Europe
• Saaristoa nipponica (Saito, 1984) – Japan
• Saaristoa sammamish (L. R. Levi & H. W. Levi, 1955) – USA

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Notes and References

1. Millidge. A.F. . 1978 . The genera Saaristoa n.gen. and Metapanamomops Millidge (Araneae: Linyphiidae) . Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society . 4 . 123 . A. F. Millidge .
2. Gen. Saaristoa Millidge, 1978. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.