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Genus: Mecopisthes Simon, 1926 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Mecopisthes silus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Turkey

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Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (4160 (iv)) - (Locket, 1964)

Taxonomic References

Erigone sila O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873a: 753, pl. 65, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description

Cnephalocotes pusillus Simon, 1884a: 706, f. 567-570 (mf, misidentified)

Cnephalocotes silus Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 119, pl. 4, f. 41 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Simon, 1926: 351, 486, f. 612-614 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Denis, 1950a: 255, f. 6 (f)

Mecopisthes silus Wiehle, 1960a: 87, f. 141-149 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Miller, 1966: 152, pl. II, f. 1-7 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Tystshenko, 1971: 256, f. 791 (f)

Mecopisthes silus Miller, 1971: 270, pl. LVII, f. 23-25 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Wunderlich, 1972b: 302, f. 24-28 (removed mf from S)

Mecopisthes silus Millidge, 1978a: 113, f. 1-2, 8-10, 18-19 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 208, f. 560 (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Wunderlich, 2008e: 688, f. 16 (m)

Mecopisthes silus Barrientos, Uribarri & García-Sarrión, 2015: 62, f. 3a-e (mf)

Mecopisthes silus Lecigne, 2016d: 19, f. 9A (f)

Mecopisthes silus Danışman, Coşar & Kunt, 2020: 16, 4A-C (m)

References

Barrientos, J. A., Uribarri, I. & García-Sarrión, R. (2015). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Turó de l'Home (Parc Natural del Montseny, Cataluña, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 61-74. -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. -- Show included taxa

Danışman, T., Coşar, İ. & Kunt, K. B. (2020). Taxonomic notes on some linyphiid spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Turkey. Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology C - Life Sciences and Biotechnology 19(1): 13-25. doi: 10.18036/estubtdc.526538 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1950a). Notes sur les érigonides. XVII. Additions et rectifications au tableau de détermination des femelles. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 84(3/4, 1949): 245-257. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2016d). Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1966). Einige neue oder unvollkommen bekannte Zwergspinnen (Micryphantidae) aus der Tschechoslowakei (Araneidea). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 63: 149-164. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1978a). The genera Mecopisthes Simon and Hypsocephalus n.gen. and their phylogenetic relationships (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4(3, 1977): 113-123. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873a). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of Erigone. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(3, 1872): 747-769, pl. 65-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00496.x [[published in April 1873, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 180-885, pl. 26-27. -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1960a). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae – Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1972b). Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, XII. Neue und seltene Arten der Linyphiidae und einige Bemerkungen zur Synonymie (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 53: 291-306. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008e). Descriptions of new taxa of European dwarf spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigonidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 685-697. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-04-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Danışman, Coşar & Kunt, 2020
2020-04-19	Species distribution update	Danışman, Coşar & Kunt, 2020	Old value
2017-01-26	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Mecopisthes pumilio Wunderlich, 2008
2017-01-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2016d
2016-11-03	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected
2016-02-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Barrientos, Uribarri & García-Sarrión, 2015