Silometopoides

Silometopoides is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by K. Y. Eskov in 1990.^[3]

Silometopoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Silometopoides Eskov, 1990[1]
Type species
S. pampia (Chamberlin, 1949)
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Orientopus Eskov, 1992[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains nine species, found in Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, and Greenland:^[1]

• Silometopoides asiaticus (Eskov, 1995) – Kazakhstan
• Silometopoides koponeni (Eskov & Marusik, 1994) – Russia
• Silometopoides mongolensis Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia, Mongolia
• Silometopoides pampia (Chamberlin, 1949) (type) – Russia, Canada, Greenland
• Silometopoides pingrensis (Crosby & Bishop, 1933) – USA
• Silometopoides sibiricus (Eskov, 1989) – Russia
• Silometopoides sphagnicola Eskov & Marusik, 1992 – Russia (Europe, Siberia)
• Silometopoides tibialis (Heimer, 1987) – Russia, Mongolia
• Silometopoides yodoensis (Oi, 1960) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)