Biology:Improphantes

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Improphantes
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Improphantes
Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996[1]
Type species
I. improbulus
(Simon, 1929)
Species

20, see text

Improphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains twenty species, found in Algeria, China , Cyprus, Finland , France , Germany , Israel, Japan , Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Russia , Spain , Sweden, Tajikistan, and Turkey:[1]

  • Improphantes biconicus (Tanasevitch, 1992) – Russia (Far East), Japan
  • Improphantes breviscapus Tanasevitch, 2013 – Israel
  • Improphantes complicatus (Emerton, 1882) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
  • Improphantes contus Tanasevitch & Piterkina, 2007 – Kazakhstan
  • Improphantes cypriot Tanasevitch, 2011 – Cyprus
  • Improphantes decolor (Westring, 1861) – Europe, North Africa
  • Improphantes djazairi (Bosmans, 1985) – Algeria
  • Improphantes falcatus (Bosmans, 1979) – Kenya
  • Improphantes flexilis (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East)
  • Improphantes furcabilis (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
  • Improphantes geniculatus (Kulczyński, 1898) – Germany to Russia (West Siberia)
  • Improphantes holmi (Kronestedt, 1975) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Urals)
  • Improphantes huberti (Wunderlich, 1980) – France (Corsica)
  • Improphantes improbulus (Simon, 1929) (type) – Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (Russia, Kazakhstan), China
  • Improphantes mauensis (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
  • Improphantes multidentatus (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
  • Improphantes nitidus (Thorell, 1875) – Europe
  • Improphantes pamiricus (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Tajikistan
  • Improphantes potanini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Kyrgyzstan
  • Improphantes turok Tanasevitch, 2011 – Turkey

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Improphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1365. Retrieved 2019-06-15. 
  2. Saaristo, M. I.; Tanasevitch, A. V. (1996). "Redelimitation of the subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 and the genus Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 with descriptions of some new genera (Aranei, Linyphiidae)". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 83: 163–186. 

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