Pelecopsis is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1864.
Species
it contains ninety-two species and four subspecies: P. agaetensis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is. P. albifrons Holm, 1979 – Kenya P. alpica Thaler, 1991 – Switzerland, Austria, Italy P. alticola (Berland, 1936) – Kenya Pelecopsis a. elgonensis (Holm, 1962) – Uganda Pelecopsis a. kenyensis (Holm, 1962) – Kenya Pelecopsis a. kivuensis (Miller, 1970) – Congo P. amabilis (Simon, 1884) – Algeria P. aureipes Denis, 1962 – Morocco P. biceps (Holm, 1962) – Tanzania P. bicornuta Hillyard, 1980 – Spain, Morocco P. bigibba Seo, 2018 – Korea P. bishopi Kaston, 1945 – USA P. brunea Seo, 2018 – Korea P. bucephala (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Western Mediterranean P. capitata (Simon, 1884) – France P. cedricola Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Algeria P. coccinea (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Spain, Morocco P. crassipes Tanasevitch, 1987 – Russia, Central Asia P. denisi Brignoli, 1983 – Andorra, France P. digitulus Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Algeria, France (Corsica) P. dorniana Heimer, 1987 – Russia, Mongolia P. elongata (Wider, 1834) (type) – Europe, Israel P. eminula (Simon, 1884) – Spain, France, Italy P. flava Holm, 1962 – Uganda, Congo P. fornicata Miller, 1970 – Congo P. fulva Holm, 1962 – Uganda P. hamata Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon P. hipporegia (Denis, 1968) – Algeria, Tunisia P. humiliceps Holm, 1979 – Kenya, Uganda P. indus Tanasevitch, 2011 – India, Pakistan P. inedita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) – Canary Is., Mediterranean P. infusca Holm, 1962 – Uganda P. intricata Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa P. janus Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa, Lesotho P. kabyliana Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Algeria P. kalaensis Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Algeria P. laptevi Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Macedonia, Ukraine, Iran, Central Asia P. leonina (Simon, 1884) – Algeria P. levantensis Tanasevitch, 2016 – Israel P. litoralis Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is. P. loksai Szinetár & Samu, 2003 – Hungary, Macedonia P. lunaris Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Algeria P. major (Denis, 1945) – Algeria P. malawiensis Jocqué, 1977 – Malawi P. margaretae Georgescu, 1975 – Romania P. medusoides Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa P. mengei (Simon, 1884) – North America, Europe, Russia (European to Far East), Japan P. minor Wunderlich, 1995 – Mongolia P. modica Hillyard, 1980 – Spain, Morocco P. moesta (Banks, 1892) – USA P. monsantensis Bosmans & Crespo, 2010 – Portugal P. montana Seo, 2018 – Korea P. moschensis (Caporiacco, 1947) – Tanzania P. mutica Denis, 1958 – France P. nigriceps Holm, 1962 – Kenya, Uganda P. nigroloba Fei, Gao & Zhu, 1995 – Russia, China P. odontophora (Kulczyński, 1895) – Georgia P. oranensis (Simon, 1884) – Morocco, Algeria P. oujda Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Morocco P. palmgreni Marusik & Esyunin, 1998 – Russia, Kazakhstan P. papillii Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania P. parallela (Wider, 1834) – Europe, Turkey, Russia to Kazakhstan P. paralleloides Tanasevitch & Fet, 1986 – Central Asia P. partita Denis, 1954 – France P. parvicollis Wunderlich, 1995 – Mongolia P. parvioculis Miller, 1970 – Angola P. pasteuri (Berland, 1936) – Tanzania P. pavesii Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 – Tunisia P. pavida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Greece, Israel P. physeter (Fage, 1936) – Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania P. pooti Bosmans & Jocqué, 1993 – Spain P. proclinata Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon P. punctilineata Holm, 1964 – Congo, Rwanda P. punctiseriata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Japan P. radicicola (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe P. reclinata (Holm, 1962) – Kenya, Uganda P. riffensis Bosmans & Abrous, 1992 – Morocco P. robusta Weiss, 1990 – Romania P. ruwenzoriensis (Holm, 1962) – Uganda P. sanje Scharff, 1990 – Tanzania P. sculpta (Emerton, 1917) – Canada Pelecopsis s. digna Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939 – USA P. senecicola Holm, 1962 – Uganda P. subflava Russell-Smith & Jocqué, 1986 – Kenya P. suilla (Simon, 1884) – Algeria P. susannae (Simon, 1915) – Portugal, France, Britain P. tenuipalpis Holm, 1979 – Uganda P. topcui (Türkeş, Karabulut, Demir & Seyyar, 2015) – Turkey P. tybaertielloides Jocqué, 1984 – Kenya P. unimaculata (Banks, 1892) – USA P. varians (Holm, 1962) – Kenya, Uganda
See also
List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)