What is Eresus?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Eresus'' | image = Eresus fg04.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = male ''E. kollari'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropoda]] | classis = [[Arachnida]] | ordo = [[Araneae]] | subordo = [[Araneomorphae]] | familia = [[Eresidae]] | genus = '''''Eresus''''' | genus_authority = [[Charles Athanase Walckenaer|Walckenaer]], 1805 | diversity_link = List of Eresidae species#Eresus | diversity = ca. 20 species | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = please see list with 7 common ones }} The '''Eresus''' or '''Ladybird spider''' is a type of velvet [[spider]] with spots on its back resembling a ladybug. ==Species== * ''[[Eresus kollari]]'' <small>Rossi, 1846</small> — [[Europe]] to [[Central Asia]] * ''[[Eresus moravicus]]'' <small>Řezáč, 2008</small> — [[Austria]], Hungary, [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]] * ''[[Eresus robustus]]'' <small>Franganillo, 1918</small> — Spain * ''[[Eresus rotundiceps]]'' <small>Simon, 1873</small> — [[Ukraine]], [[Turkmenistan]] * ''[[Eresus ruficapillus]]'' <small>C. L. Koch, 1846</small> — [[Sicily]], [[Croatia]] * ''[[Eresus sandaliatus]]'' <small>(Martini & Goeze, 1778)</small> — Northern Europe * ''[[Eresus walckenaeri]]'' <small>Brullé, 1832</small> — Mediterranean {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Araneomorphae]]