Trichopterna Explained

Trichopterna is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:^[2]

• Trichopterna cito (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
• Trichopterna cucurbitina (Simon, 1881) – Portugal, Spain, France
• Trichopterna grummi Tanasevitch, 1989 – Central Asia
• Trichopterna krueperi (Simon, 1885) – Greece
• Trichopterna loricata Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna lucasi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Algeria
• Trichopterna macrophthalma Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna rotundiceps Denis, 1962 – Tanzania
• Trichopterna seculifera Denis, 1962 – Tanzania

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

Notes and References

1. Book: Chyzer. C.. Kulczyński. W.. 1894. Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp., Pl. I-V. 1–151. Władysław_Kulczyński.
2. Gen. Trichopterna Kulczyński, 1894. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-02. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.