Trogloneta Explained

Trogloneta is a genus of spurred orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1922.^[1]

Species

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

• Trogloneta canariensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Trogloneta cantareira Brescovit & Lopardo, 2008 – Brazil
• Trogloneta cariacica Brescovit & Lopardo, 2008 – Brazil
• Trogloneta granulum Simon, 1922 (type) – Europe
• Trogloneta madeirensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Madeira
• Trogloneta mourai Brescovit & Lopardo, 2008 – Brazil
• Trogloneta nojimai (Ono, 2010) – Japan
• Trogloneta paradoxa Gertsch, 1960 – USA
• Trogloneta speciosum Lin & Li, 2008 – China
• Trogloneta uncata Lin & Li, 2013 – China
• Trogloneta yuensis Lin & Li, 2013 – China
• Trogloneta yunnanense (Song & Zhu, 1994) – China

See also

• List of Mysmenidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1922. Description de deux arachnides cavernicoles du midi de la France. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 199–200. 1922. 15. 10.3406/bsef.1922.27013. 201473023. Eugène_Simon.
2. Gen. Trogloneta Simon, 1922. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-11. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.