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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Erigoninae - Dwarf Spiders

red and black spider - Ceraticelus silus miniature spider - male Spider Tiny red & black spider Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders) Ceraticelus Toothy! - Mermessus tridentatus - male Adult Male - Gonatium crassipalpum - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)
Subfamily Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders)
Other Common Names
In the United States they are called "dwarf spiders," in England "money spiders," and in German they are known under the common name of "Zwergspinnen."(1)
Numbers
About 650 species and 122 genera of erigonines known in America north of Mexico. (1)
Size
1 to 6 mm (most are about 2 mm)
Internet References
(1) PDF Article, Gustavo Hormiga - Higher Level Phylogenetics of Erigonine Spiders.

(2) The LinEpig project displays digital images of the epigynes (female external sex organs) for identified specimens of Erigoninae in North America.