Taranucnus Explained

Taranucnus is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.^[1]

Species

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

• Taranucnus beskidicus Hirna, 2018 – Ukraine
• Taranucnus bihari Fage, 1931 – Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine
• Taranucnus carpaticus Gnelitsa, 2016 – Ukraine
• Taranucnus nishikii Yaginuma, 1972 – Japan
• Taranucnus ornithes (Barrows, 1940) – USA
• Taranucnus setosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Central Siberia)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1884. Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris. 180–885. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Taranucnus Simon, 1884. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-24. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.