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Oryphantes

Oryphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1932.

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Oryphantes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Oryphantes
Hull, 19321
Type species
O. angulatus
Species

5, see text

Oryphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. E. Hull in 1932.2

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:1

  • Oryphantes aliquantulus Dupérré & Paquin, 2007 – USA, Canada
  • Oryphantes angulatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881) (type) – Europe
  • Oryphantes bipilis (Kulczyński, 1885) – Russia
  • Oryphantes cognatus (Tanasevitch, 1992) – Russia
  • Oryphantes geminus (Tanasevitch, 1982) – Russia, Kazakhstan
References

References

  1. "Gen. Oryphantes Hull, 1932". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  2. Hull, J. E. (1932). "Nomenclature of British linyphiid spiders: A brief examination of Simon's French catalogue". Transactions of the Northern Naturalists' Union. 1: 104–110.