Lygarina

Lygarina is a genus of South American dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[3]

Lygarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Lygarina Simon, 1894[1]
Type species
L. nitida Simon, 1894
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Millidgefa Özdikmen, 2007[2] Notiothauma Millidge, 1991[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains five species, found in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela:^[1]

• Lygarina aurantiaca (Simon, 1905) – Argentina
• Lygarina caracasana Simon, 1894 – Venezuela
• Lygarina finitima Millidge, 1991 – Peru
• Lygarina nitida Simon, 1894 (type) – Brazil
• Lygarina silvicola Millidge, 1991 – Brazil

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)