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Lepthyphantes

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Lepthyphantes
Lepthyphantes leprosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Subfamily: Linyphiinae
Genus: Lepthyphantes
Menge, 1866[1]
Type species
L. minutus
(Blackwall, 1833)
Species

161, see text

Lepthyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Anton Menge in 1866.[2]

Species

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As of May 2021 it contains 161 species and two subspecies, found in Albania, Algeria, Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Comoros, Middle Africa, Cyprus, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the United States:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. ^ Menge, A. (1866). "Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung". Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 1: 1–152.