Simitidion

Simitidion
	Simitidion simile figure 119
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Simitidion; Wunderlich, 1992
Type species
	S. simile; (C. L. Koch, 1836)
Species
	S. agaricographum (Levy & Amitai, 1982) – Tunisia, Greece (mainland, Crete), Turkey, Cyprus, Israel ; S. lacuna Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is., Spain, North Africa, Israel ; S. simile (C. L. Koch, 1836) – Canada, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia;

Simitidion is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1992.^[2] As of June 2020^[update] it contains three species, native to Africa, Asia and Europe, and introduced to Canada: S. agaricographum, S. lacuna, and S. simile.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Simitidion Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
^ Wunderlich, J. (1992). "Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 1: 1–619.

Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 2: 1–522.
Wunderlich, J. (2008). "On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 5: 819–859.
Levy, G. (1998), "Araneae: Theridiidae", Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida III
Knoflach, B. (1996). "Das Männchen von Simitidion agaricographum (Levy & Amitai) (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 83: 149–156.

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