Species Erigone dentosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range

one weird looking small spider - Erigone dentosa - male

Male Erigone dentosa - Erigone dentosa - male

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)

Genus Erigone

Species dentosa (Erigone dentosa)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Identification

Comment taken from Devin Carroll's 2008 image/notes: "The male palp has a hook underneath in the middle, in addition to the long process at the tip, characteristic in all Erigone species. The hook separates it from all other Erigone".

Palp

Epigynum

Range

Comment taken from Devin Carroll's 2008 image/notes: "Erigone dentosa outnumbers all other Erigoninae species combined throughout much of the Pacific coast states".

Contributed by Devin Carroll on 31 October, 2008 - 10:49pm
Additional contributions by cheins, kschnei
Last updated 18 November, 2024 - 2:14pm

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