Minicia

Minicia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Subfamily:	Erigoninae
Genus:	Minicia Thorell, 1875[1]
Type species
M. marginella (Wider, 1834)
Species
12, see text
Synonyms[1]
Flagellicymbium Schmidt, 1975[2]

Minicia is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1875.^[3]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twelve species and one subspecies:^[1]

• Minicia alticola Tanasevitch, 1990 – Georgia
• Minicia candida Denis, 1946 – Europe
  • Minicia c. obscurior Denis, 1964 – France
• Minicia caspiana Tanasevitch, 1990 – Azerbaijan
• Minicia elegans Simon, 1894 – Portugal, Algeria
• Minicia floresensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Azores
• Minicia gomerae (Schmidt, 1975) – Canary Is.
• Minicia grancanariensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is.
• Minicia kirghizica Tanasevitch, 1985 – Central Asia
• Minicia marginella (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Caucasus
• Minicia pallida Eskov, 1995 – Russia, Kazakhstan
• Minicia teneriffensis Wunderlich, 1980 – Canary Is.
• Minicia vittata Caporiacco, 1935 – Kashmir

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Minicia Thorell, 1875". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
2. Wunderlich, J. (1980). "Drei Beispiele für Artbildung (Speziation) bei Spinnen von den Kanarischen Inseln (Arachnida: Araneida: Linyphiidae, Oecobiidae, Gnaphosidae)". Zoologische Beiträge. 25 (1979): 415.
3. Thorell, T. (1875). "Descriptions of several European and North African spiders". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 13 (5): 1–203.