Description of five new spiders from Canada (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
Author
Paquin, Pierre
text
Zootaxa
2007
1632
1
20
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179433
588b73cc-c94f-4f39-a203-be5f532102ee
1175-5326
179433
Sisicus
Bishop & Crosby 1938
Type
species.
Sisicus penifusifer
Bishop & Crosby 1938
Diagnosis.
Members of the genus
Sisicus
are distinguished from all other
Linyphiidae
by the combination of the following characters: prolateral macrosetae on tibia I absent; haplotracheate (see
Blest 1976
: fig.1a) with median tracheal trunks about as wide as laterals. Male cephalothorax rounded, clypeus with brush of setae; palp with vestigial suprategulum and large lamella charcateristica. Female with one seta on clypeus; epigynum without ventral plate scape; dorsal plate scape present; atrium large.
Composition.
Sisicus penifusifer
Bishop & Crosby 1938
,
S. apertus
(Holm 1939)
and
S. volutasilex
n.sp.
Distribution.
Holarctic.