Mecynargus

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

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Mecynargus Kulczyński, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
^ Eskov, K. Y. (1988). "Spiders of the genera Mecynargus, Mecynargoides gen. n. and Tubercithorax gen. n. (Aranei, Linyphiidae) in the fauna of the USSR". Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal. 67: 1832.
^ Millidge, A. F. (1977). "The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 4: 17.
^ Chyzer, C.; Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II.

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