Piniphantes

Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.[2]

Piniphantes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Piniphantes
Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996[1]
Type species
P. pinicola
(Simon, 1884)
Species

9, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains nine species, found in Europe and Asia:[1]

  • Piniphantes agnellus (Maurer & Thaler, 1988) – France, Italy
  • Piniphantes cinereus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
  • Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986) – France (Corsica)
  • Piniphantes himalayensis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal, Pakistan
  • Piniphantes macer (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
  • Piniphantes pinicola (Simon, 1884) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan
  • Piniphantes plumatus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
  • Piniphantes uzbekistanicus (Tanasevitch, 1983) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
  • Piniphantes zonsteini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Piniphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  2. Saaristo, M. I.; Tanasevitch, A. V. (1996). "Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 83: 163–186.


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