Biology:Phylloneta

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Phylloneta
Theridion impressum M frei Araneae fg02.jpg
Phylloneta impressa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Phylloneta
Archer, 1950[1]
Type species
Theridion pictipes
(Keyserling, 1884)
Species

Phylloneta is a genus of comb-footed spiders formerly considered a sub-genus of Allotheridion,[2] and raised to genus status in 2008.[3] The type species was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1884 as Theridion pictipes.[4] (As of September 2019) it contains three species and two subspecies with a holarctic distribution: P. impressa, P. pictipes, P. sisyphia, P. s. foliifera, and P. s. torandae.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Phylloneta Archer, 1950. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3525. Retrieved 2019-10-27. 
  2. Archer, A. F. (1950). "A study of theridiid and mimetid spiders with descriptions of new genera and species". Museum Paper, Alabama Museum of Natural History 30: 1–40. 
  3. Wunderlich, J. (2008). "On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 393. 
  4. Keyserling, E. (1884). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. p. 64. 

Further reading

  • Levi, H. W. (1957). "The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 112: 1–124. 
  • Le Peru, B. (2011). "The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae". Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1–522. 
  • Almquist, S. (2005). "Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded)". Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62: 1–284. 
  • Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House. 

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