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Sauron (spider)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Family
  
Linyphiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Spider

Sauron is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae containing two species in Europe and Asia. Sauron spiders are 1.25 to 2 mm in total length. The genus name derives from the character Sauron from the books of J. R. R. Tolkien.

  • Sauron fissocornis Eskov, 1995 was described from individuals collected in the Saur Mountains of Kazakhstan.
  • Sauron rayi, originally described by Eugène Simon in 1881 as Erigone rayi, occurs throughout Central and Eastern Europe, ranging from France to Russia.

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    Sauron (spider) Wikipedia
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