Selenyphantes

Selenyphantes is a genus of sheet weavers. It was first described by Willis J. Gertsch & L. I. Davis in 1946.[3]

Selenyphantes
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Selenyphantes
Gertsch & Davis, 1946[1]
Type species
Selenyphantes longispinosus
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Palaeolinyphia Wunderlich, 1986[2]

Species

As of August 2021 it contains six species, found in Costa Rica, Mexico and Guatemala.[1][4]

  • Selenyphantes costaricensis Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Costa Rica
  • Selenyphantes gaimani Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
  • Selenyphantes iztactepetl Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico
  • Selenyphantes longispinosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (type) – Mexico
  • Selenyphantes orizabae Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico, Guatemala
  • Selenyphantes volcanicus Silva-Moreira & Hormiga, 2021 – Mexico

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Selenyphantes Gertsch & Davis, 1946". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. New York: The New York Entomological Society. p. 349.
  3. Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1946). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. V". American Museum Novitates (1313): 1–11.
  4. Thiago da Silva Moreira; Gustavo Hormiga (2021). "Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (3): 896–957. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa124.


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