''Trematocephalus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
sheet weavers first described by
Friedrich Dahl
Karl Friedrich Theodor Dahl (24 June 1856 in Rosenhofer Brök north of Dahme, Schleswig-Holstein, Dahme, Holstein – 29 June 1929 in Greifswald) was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist.
The son of a farmer, Dahl studied at the ...
in 1886.
Species
, it contains only four species:
* ''
Trematocephalus cristatus''
(Wider, 1834) — Palearctic. "A striking red and blue-black money spider with a hole straight through its head."
[Isabella Tree, ''Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm'' (London: Picador, 2018), p. 271.]
* ''
Trematocephalus obscurus''
Denis, 1950 — France
* ''
Trematocephalus simplex''
Simon, 1894 — Sri Lanka
* ''
Trematocephalus tripunctatus''
Simon, 1894 — Sri Lanka
References
Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Palearctic spiders
Taxa named by Friedrich Dahl
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