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Silometopus
S. reussi, male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Silometopus Simon, 1926
Type species
S. curtus (Simon, 1881)
Species
18, see text
Synonyms
Scleroschaema Hull, 1911

Silometopus is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1926.

Species

As of August 2021 it contains eighteen species, found in Asia and Europe:

• Silometopus acutus Holm, 1977 – Sweden, Poland, Russia (Europe)
• Silometopus ambiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906) – Western and northern Europe
• Silometopus bonessi Casemir, 1970 – Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia
• Silometopus braunianus Thaler, 1978 – Alps (Switzerland, Italy, Austria)
• Silometopus crassipedis Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
• Silometopus curtus (Simon, 1881) (type) – Spain, France, ?Hungary, ?Malta, ?Egypt
• Silometopus elegans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Central Asia/Siberia)
• Silometopus elton Tanasevitch & Grushko, 2020 – Russia (Europe)
• Silometopus graecus Bosmans, 2020 – Greece
• Silometopus incurvatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Central Asia
• Silometopus minutus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
• Silometopus nitidithorax (Simon, 1915) – France, Greece
• Silometopus pectinatus Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel
• Silometopus reussi (Thorell, 1871) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
• Silometopus rosemariae Wunderlich, 1969 – Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
• Silometopus sachalinensis (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia (Sakhalin), Japan
• Silometopus tenuispinus Denis, 1950 – France, Andorra
• Silometopus uralensis Tanasevitch, 1985 – Russia (Urals to Central Asia/Siberia)

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)

References

1. ^ "Gen. Silometopus Simon, 1926". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
2. Denis, J. (1942). "Notes sur les érigonides. II. A propos de la femelle de Diplocephalus protuberans (O. P. Cambr.)". Revue Française d'Entomologie. 9: 84.
3. Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris. pp. 309–532.

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