Ostearius

Ostearius is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911.[3] As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in Spain, Turkey, Egypt, China, South Africa, and New Zealand: O. melanopygius and O. muticus.[1]

Ostearius
O. melanopygius, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Ostearius Hull, 1911[1]
Type species
O. melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)
Species
O. melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – South America. Introduced to Europe, Canary Is. to Egypt and Turkey, South Africa, China, New Zealand O. muticus Gao, Gao & Zhu, 1994 – China
Synonyms[1]
Haemathyphantes Caporiacco, 1949[2]

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Ostearius Hull, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
2. Helsdingen, P. J. van (1977), "Fam. Linyphiidae", La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV, p. 182
3. Hull, J. E. (1911). "Papers on spiders". Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. 3 (3): 573–590.