Spiracme

Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.^[2] The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila.^[1] Most recently, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study in 2019 and grouped similar species based on the results:^[3]

Species

Ozyptila

Xysticus

Psammitis

Coriarachne

Bassaniana

Spiracme

As of April 2022 it contains ten species:^[1]

• S. baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) – Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Central Asia, Mongolia, China
• S. dura (Sørensen, 1898) – USA, Canada, Greenland
• S. keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) – USA, Canada
• S. lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) – Russia (South Siberia)
• S. mongolica (Schenkel, 1963) – Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
• S. nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) – USA, Canada
• S. quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) – China
• S. striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran, China
• S. triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) – USA, Canada
• S. vachoni (Schenkel, 1963) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan

See also

• Xysticus
• List of Thomisidae genera

References