Biology:Frontinella

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Frontinella
Male Frontinella pyramitela.jpg
Male bowl and doily spider(F. communis)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Frontinella
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[1]
Type species
F. laeta
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898)
Species

9, see text

Frontinella is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1902.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains nine species and one subspecies, found in China , El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States :[1]

  • Frontinella bella Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
  • Frontinella huachuca Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – USA, Mexico
  • Frontinella hubeiensis Li & Song, 1993 – China
  • Frontinella laeta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) (type) – Mexico
  • Frontinella omega Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
  • Frontinella potosia Gertsch & Davis, 1946 – Mexico
  • Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841) – North, Central America
  • Frontinella tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 – Mexico
  • Frontinella zhui Li & Song, 1993 – China

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Frontinella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1315. Retrieved 2019-06-14. 
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 
  3. "Genus Frontinella". BugGuide. https://bugguide.net/node/view/2013. 

Wikidata ☰ Q165588 entry