Spiracme Menge, 1876
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12820343 |
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Type species.
Spiracme striata Menge, 1864 . Xysticus striata Menge, 1876 , by monotypy.
Note.
Breitling (2019) revalidated the genus Spiracme , but he did not provide any diagnosis or any diagnostic features. As delimited by Breitling (2019), it is impossible to give a precise diagnosis for the genus, including all and only those species. Hence, it should be subject to future revision or reconsideration.
Diagnosis.
Males can be recognised by the bulb lacking apophyses (Fig. 6 A, D View Figure 6 ) or tegular apophysis ( Gertsch 1953; Menge 1876; Lehtinen 2002). The tutaculum is triangle-shaped in this type of species. Tibia with two or three apophyses; VTA is simple and rounded; and RTA has a distinct pointed hook ( Lehtinen 2002). Females can be recognised by the prominent septum (but can be absent; see Gertsch 1953). Both sex lateral eyes are 1.5 times larger than the median eyes and have light elevation ( Menge 1876).
Composition.
Currently 10 species have been added to this genus ( WSC 2024): S. striatipes (L. Koch, 1870) , S. baltistana (Caporiacco, 1935) , S. dura (Sørensen, 1898) , S. keyserlingi (Bryant, 1930) , S. lehtineni (Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2014) , S. nigromaculata (Keyserling, 1884) , S. quadrata (Tang & Song, 1988) , S. triangulosa (Emerton, 1894) , S. vachoni ( Schenkel, 1963) .
Description.
see Menge (1876) and Lehtinen (2002).
Distribution.
Holarctic.
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