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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Eskovia
| authority = Marusik & [[Michael Saaristo|Saaristo]], 1999<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Eskovia exarmata|E. exarmata]]''
| type_species_authority = (Eskov, 1989)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
| [[Eskovia exarmata|E. exarmata]]|<small>(Eskov, 1989)</small> – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), Canada
| [[Eskovia mongolica|E. mongolica]]|<small>Marusik & Saaristo, 1999</small> – Mongolia}}
}}
'''''Eskovia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Linyphiidae|dwarf spiders]] that was first described by Y. M. Marusik & [[Michael Saaristo|Michael I. Saaristo]] in 1999.<ref name=Maru1999>{{cite journal| last1=Marusik| first1=Y. M.| last2=Saaristo| first2=M. I.| year=1999| title=Review of East Palearctic species of the genus ''Minicia'' Thorell, 1875 with descriptions of two new genera (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae).| journal=Arthropoda Selecta| pages=125–130| volume=8| author-link2=Michael_Saaristo}}</ref> {{as of|2019|05}} it contains only two species: ''[[Eskovia exarmata|E. exarmata]]'' and ''[[Eskovia mongolica|E. mongolica]]''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Eskovia Marusik & Saaristo, 1999| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-14| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1295| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
The male carapace in both members of this genus has a distinct shape, appearing roughly trapezoidal in profile, especially in ''E. exarmata.''<ref name="Maru1999" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Spiders of North America : an identification manual |date=2017 |publisher=American Arachnological Society |location=Keene, New Hampshire |isbn=978-0-9980146-0-9 |edition=Second}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of Linyphiidae species (A–H)]]
==References==
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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Linyphiidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
[[Category:Spiders of North America]]
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