Spiracme
Spiracme is a genus of crab spiders erected by Anton Menge in 1876 to contain S. striata, transferred from Xysticus.
Taxonomy
The exact relationship of these spiders and their closest relatives has been long debated, and many included species have been transferred to and from similar genera, namely Xysticus and Ozyptila. In 2019, Rainer Breitling conducted a DNA barcoding study and grouped similar genera based on the results:Species
, this genus includes ten species:- Spiracme baltistana – Kazakhstan, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
- Spiracme dura – Canada, United States, Greenland
- Spiracme keyserlingi – Canada, United States
- Spiracme lehtineni – Russia
- Spiracme lendli – Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan
- Spiracme nigromaculata – Canada, United States
- Spiracme quadrata – China
- Spiracme striatipes – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia,, Iran, China
- Spiracme triangulosa – Alaska, Canada, United States
- Spiracme vachoni – Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan