''Sauron'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
sheet weavers that was first described by
K. Y. Eskov & Y. M. Marusik in 1995.
They reach a body length of . The genus name is derived from
Sauron
Sauron (pronounced ) is the title character and the primary antagonist, through the forging of the One Ring, of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'', where he rules the land of Mordor and has the ambition of ruling the whole of Midd ...
, a character in the
books of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Species
it contains only two species, ''
S. fissocornis'' and ''
S. rayi''.
''S. fissocornis'' was described from individuals collected in the
Saur Mountains of Kazakhstan. ''S. rayi'' was originally described by
Eugène Simon in 1881 as ''Erigone rayi'', and occurs throughout Central and Eastern Europe from France to Russia.
See also
*
List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z)
References
Araneomorphae genera
Linyphiidae
Spiders of Europe
Spiders of Asia
Organisms named after Tolkien and his works
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