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Subfamily Erigoninae - Dwarf Spiders

Who turns their kids out at a time like this - Spiderling #5 Spider - Erigone Spider - Eridantes erigonoides - female Spider - Walckenaeria - male Ceraticelus emertoni - male Spider - Soulgas corticarius - male Spider - Grammonota pallipes - male Goneatara nasutus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Linyphiidae (Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders)
Subfamily Erigoninae (Dwarf Spiders)
Other Common Names
Money Spiders (UK)(1)
Numbers
~650 spp. and 122 genera in our area(1)
Size
1‒6 mm (mostly ~2 mm)
Identification
images of the epigynes of nearctic Erigoninae
Works Cited
1.Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)
Hormiga G. 2000. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 609, 160 pp.