Mecynargus

Mecynargus is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.^[4]

Mecynargus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894[1]
Type species
M. longus (Kulczyński, 1882)
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Conigerella Holm, 1967[2] Rhaebothorax Simon, 1926[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

• Mecynargus asiaticus Tanasevitch, 1989 – Kyrgyzstan
• Mecynargus borealis (Jackson, 1930) – Canada, Northern Europe, Russia (Siberia)
• Mecynargus brocchus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
• Mecynargus hypnicola Eskov, 1988 – Russia
• Mecynargus longus (Kulczyński, 1882) (type) – Eastern Europe
• Mecynargus minutipalpis Gnelitsa, 2011 – Ukraine, Russia
• Mecynargus minutus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Russia
• Mecynargus monticola (Holm, 1943) – Sweden, Finland, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
• Mecynargus morulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Greenland, Palearctic
• Mecynargus paetulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – USA (Alaska), Canada, Europe, Russia (European to Far East)
• Mecynargus pinipumilis Eskov, 1988 – Russia
• Mecynargus pyrenaeus (Denis, 1950) – France
• Mecynargus sphagnicola (Holm, 1939) – Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia, Canada
• Mecynargus tundricola Eskov, 1988 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
• Mecynargus tungusicus (Eskov, 1981) – Russia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Canada

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)