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Species Erigone dentosa

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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
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".

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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".