Megalepthyphantes

Megalepthyphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by J. Wunderlich in 1994.[2]

Megalepthyphantes
M. nebulosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Megalepthyphantes
Wunderlich, 1994[1]
Type species
M. nebulosus
(Sundevall, 1830)
Species

17, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains seventeen species:[1]

  • Megalepthyphantes auresensis Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
  • Megalepthyphantes bkheitae (Bosmans & Bouragba, 1992) – Algeria
  • Megalepthyphantes brignolii Tanasevitch, 2014 – Morocco
  • Megalepthyphantes camelus (Tanasevitch, 1990) – Iran, Azerbaijan
  • Megalepthyphantes collinus (L. Koch, 1872) – Europe
  • Megalepthyphantes globularis Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey
  • Megalepthyphantes hellinckxorum Bosmans, 2006 – Algeria
  • Megalepthyphantes kandahar Tanasevitch, 2009 – Afghanistan
  • Megalepthyphantes kronebergi (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Iran, Kazakhstan to China
  • Megalepthyphantes kuhitangensis (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Israel, Central Asia, China
  • Megalepthyphantes lydiae Wunderlich, 1994 – Greece
  • Megalepthyphantes minotaur Tanasevitch & Wunderlich, 2015 – Greece (Crete)
  • Megalepthyphantes nebulosoides (Wunderlich, 1977) – Iran, Central Asia
  • Megalepthyphantes nebulosus (Sundevall, 1830) (type) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (European to Far East)
  • Megalepthyphantes pseudocollinus Saaristo, 1997 – Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
  • Megalepthyphantes turkestanicus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, China
  • Megalepthyphantes turkeyensis Tanasevitch, Kunt & Seyyar, 2005 – Cyprus, Turkey

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich, 1994". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  2. Wunderlich, J. (1994). "Beschreibung der neuen Spinnen-Gattung Megalepthyphantes aus der Familie der Baldachinspinnen und einer bisher unbekannten Art aus Griechenland (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt a.M. 104: 168–171.


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