Tallusia Explained

Tallusia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen & Michael I. Saaristo in 1972.^[1]

Species

, it contains five species, found in Asia:^[2]

• Tallusia bicristata Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972 – Turkey
• Tallusia experta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia to Kazakhstan, Japan
• Tallusia forficala (Zhu & Tu, 1986) – China
• Tallusia pindos Thaler, 1997 – Greece
• Tallusia vindobonensis (Kulczyński, 1898) – Central, Eastern Europe

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Notes and References

1. Lehtinen. P. T.. Saaristo. M. I.. 1972. Tallusia gen. n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 265–268. 9. Pekka_T._Lehtinen. Michael_Saaristo.
2. Gen. Tallusia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1972. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-24. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.