Novafrontina

Novafrontina is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1991.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species, found in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil: N. bipunctata, N. patens, and N. uncata.[1]

Novafrontina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Novafrontina
Millidge, 1991[1]
Type species
N. bipunctata
(Keyserling, 1886)
Species
  • N. bipunctata (Keyserling, 1886) – Ecuador, Peru
  • N. patens Millidge, 1991 – Colombia
  • N. uncata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico to Brazil

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Novafrontina Millidge, 1991". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  2. Millidge, A. F. (1991). "Further linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from South America". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 205: 1–199.


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