Asemostera is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3] Originally placed with the family Agelenidae, it was moved to the family Linyphiidae in 1965.[4]
| Asemostera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Asemostera Simon, 1898[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. latithorax (Keyserling, 1886)
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9, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains nine species:[1]
- Asemostera arcana (Millidge, 1991) – Costa Rica to Venezuela
- Asemostera daedalus Miller, 2007 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
- Asemostera dianae Rodrigues & Brescovit, 2012 – Peru
- Asemostera enkidu Miller, 2007 – Colombia, Venezuela
- Asemostera involuta (Millidge, 1991) – Ecuador
- Asemostera janetae Miller, 2007 – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Asemostera latithorax (Keyserling, 1886) (type) – Brazil
- Asemostera pallida (Millidge, 1991) – Peru
- Asemostera tacuapi Rodrigues, 2007 – Brazil
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Asemostera Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
- ^ a b c d Miller, J. A. (2007). "Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 149: 162. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x.
- ^ Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ^ Roth, V. D. (1965). "Genera erroneously placed in the spider families Agelenidae and Pisauridae (Araneida: Arachnida)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 58 (3): 291. doi:10.1093/aesa/58.3.289.