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Ostearius
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Ostearius

Ostearius is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1911. As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in Spain, Turkey, Egypt, China, South Africa, and New Zealand: O. melanopygius and O. muticus.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 172362.